file sharing painfully slow

[Dan Shoop]

At 12:39 PM -0600 3/20/07, Scott Ribe wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>...
>
>>  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.
>
>This is not about previews. We're just talking about plain old icons, based
>on file type and/or creator, not even per-file custom icons. And in a
>directory where every file has the exact same type, creator, and extension.
>The Finder is *INCREDIBLY* slow over WAN links in this case. I can't even
>imagine trying to use previews...

In that case you're complaining about just the stat that's done. That 
too is transferred file by file so 900 files is a lot to stat through.

But it's well known not to keep large numbers of files in directories 
on Macs for these reasons...
-- 

-dhan

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