file sharing painfully slow

[John C. Welch]

On 3/20/07 15:02, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> 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.

and you have seen the data on this from your server?

There's two ways to get icon data. You can download it, or you can create it
yourself based on file metadata.

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