file sharing painfully slow

[Dan Shoop]

At 5:02 PM -0400 3/20/07, Chris Murphy wrote:
>On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>
>>Well Windows is embarrassingly dumb wrt file browsing. So saying 
>>that a dumb something is better than a smart one that wants some 
>>info to bring those smarts is complaining about getting the extra 
>>cream in your coffee.
>
>IT may be dumb, but I'm getting the information I need to do what I 
>want, and none of the silly redundant and unnecessary information I 
>don't.
>
>Plus, your analogy fails to withstand scrutiny. Your assumption is 
>that cream is a good thing, and more cream is inherently better. 
>Extra cream vs. too little cream, in either case it's the wrong 
>amount.

Nowhere did I suggest that you flood yourself.

>I need to do something that should take all of 30 seconds, yet I 
>have to wait almost 5 minutes with a beachballing Finder.

Then you have an issue which merits further investigation. But you 
just want to bitch and not really sniff and find out what's happening.

And you lump it on "the Finder" as if that's the culprit and it's not 
an issue of Cocoa and Carbon frameworks. The concepts of being able 
to tell when files change takes metadata. You can't have that on 
FTP-like data connections like you're suggesting. But if you want 
that use an ssh filesystem. And you can still then use the Finder.

But if you want AFP and annoucements you can't have your coffee black.

>  It's indefensible and your position is just totally untenable, Dan.

How so?

>  I no longer have coffee with some cream. I have a pint of cream 
>with an ounce of coffee in it. It's completely the wrong order and 
>saying it's working correctly is just patently absurd.

Is it working? Yes. Done.

>>It's not.
>
>By all means feel free to compute the amount for 900 images. I 
>seriously doubt it approaches anywhere near 10MB.

What butt did you pull that out of? Where do you get that it's 
transferring 10MB for a directory listing?

>  99% of which did not need to be sent and serves no useful purpose 
>as compared to date, size and label.

Then use a filesystem transport that meets your black coffee needs. 
It's not like it's hard to do.

You complain like screwdrivers should hammer nails.
-- 

-dhan

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