file sharing painfully slow

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:30 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

> 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?

yes

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

OK how do I compel either the server or client to not download icons  
and just create it based on file metadata?



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