file sharing painfully slow

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:47 AM, John Welch wrote:

>> 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.

Nope, sorry. The fact that everyone continues to be in total denial  
about on this list is I can do this on Windows and not have the  
problem I have on Mac OS. I can sort by date and file size, and not  
wait 5 minutes while Explorer hangs waiting for b.s. unimportant  
icons I could give a flying F about.


> If you want all this wonderful information, at some point, it has  
> to move
> from point a to point b.

icons are not wonderful information, especially when they're all the  
same, and the OS insist on downloading the same sh*t a thousand  
times...that's just ridiculously inefficient.


> 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 I have set a preference saying I do not want to see such data, at  
least in Column view with respect to icons, that data is not being  
downloaded and there is no delay. There is not such option for list  
view.



Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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