file sharing painfully slow

[Dan Shoop]

At 1:53 PM -0400 3/20/07, Chris Murphy wrote:
>On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
>
>>>It's almost like the Finder
>>>is asking for the icon status for every single JPEG, but I'm not sure
>>>what the deal is.
>>
>>Seems that way to me. It is painful.
>>
>
>Does this seem colossally ridiculous after five major iterations of the OS?

No, not at all. It's the way the Finder works and it works fine. If 
you don't want this behavior, turn it off.

>I'm not sure which is worse, that it takes almost 5 minutes to 
>receive unimportant and redundant information about a list of files 
>in a directory, or that the Finder is completely unusable while 
>waiting for such data. But certainly both at once creates a really 
>negative user experience.
>
>I wonder if sharing this with a protocol that doesn't support icons, 
>such as SMB instead of AFP, would resolve this problem. Or NFS?

Ummm... all of those would act the same as they all do support the 
Finder building image previews. It's a Finder thing, not some sort of 
metadata. I think you aren't understanding the issue here. The Finder 
is reading each file to build a preview.
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-dhan

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