file sharing painfully slow

[Chris Murphy]

It's clearly about icons, even though they're just generic ones. If I  
change to column view, and then uncheck "Show icons" the problem is  
resolved.

However, I don't have the ability to sort by the 200 most recent  
images, or sort by labels, or really do much of anything in this  
folder. So column view isn't an option because it's castrated.

List view is what I need, and there's no option to turn off icons in  
this view, so they're always on, and the Finder will always try to  
get this data.

Here's my thought:

Since the generic icon is determined by the system hosting the files,  
my Finder is asking that system for each files, and the remote system  
is sending a 128px * 128px * 4 channels, that's 64KB of data per  
image redundantly being downloaded. That is high order sabotage to do  
this. What a bad bad idea. And that's consistent with the bandwidth  
available and the amount of time it's taking for the list view to  
load in and for the Finder to recover.

It's just craziness to defend this behavior. It does not at all "work  
fine."

I will bet this is one of the reasons why iDisk connections hang up  
the Finder, as it's trying to grab a bunch of file icons  
unnecessarily. This is so ridiculous at this stage it's camp. My god  
Apple...

Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Ed"