file sharing painfully slow

[Shawn Erickson]

On 3/22/07, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe at killerbytes.com> wrote:
> > In short, it's not a bug in the finder, it's a PEBKAC issue.
>
> There is absolutely no need to download THE SAME ICON 900 times for 900
> files with identical type/creator/extension and no custom icons. Gee, I'd
> even go so far as to guess that downloading it once would probably be
> sufficient, and, oh, I don't know, maybe about 900 times faster.

Humm... do we _really_ know that is happening?

If no custom icon exits then the local system should be using launch
services to locate the associated icon. That lookup shouldn't involve
the remote server unless the associated application is only found on
the server. The local system of course has to fetch some metadata
information about the file to be able to do the icon lookup...

Anyone try doing a fs_usage to see what is really taking place (sorry
jumped in at the end of this thread and I not interested in reading
back thru the spew...)

-Shawn