file sharing painfully slow

[John Welch]

On 3/22/07 10:21 AM, "macosx-admin-bounces at omnigroup.com"
<macosx-admin-bounces at omnigroup.com> wrote:

> See, he wants the benefit of all the metadata (He even mentioned
> sorting by labels) without actually transferring the metadata
> information.

<caligula>
"I want everything and nothing Caesar."

"Well you can't get both for the same price!"
</caligula>

> 
> And this is why in list view it needs all the metadata, because you
> chose your sort criteria in the list view.  the only way it can sort
> the list correctly is to examine every element of the list.

Yeah...which is what a lot of people are trying to tell him.

If you want all this wonderful information, at some point, it has to move
from point a to point b. As you said, since list view can display a lot more
information than column view, then that information has to be dealt with.
There's two ways to do it...you can fron - end load everything, and this is
what Apple looks to be doing. The downside? Initial delays. The upside? Once
you get it all, you don't have to wait. So if you want to view a parameter
not currently in the window, there's no additional delay in doing so.

If you only download what's requested, then you may be *somewhat* faster
initially, but if you need to add more information, then you pay the piper
later. In either event, you are ALWAYS downloading the icons. There's no
view that DOESN'T have icons. Column, and I'll hazard Icon view, because of
how they're set up, can be very aggressive on the initial download (filling
the window area), then quite lazy on the stuff you can't see, which is why
scrolling down a list in column or icon view can get jumpy.

But one way or another, the information has to get from point a to point b.

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John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
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