file sharing painfully slow

[Nigel Kersten]

On 23/03/2007, at 2:55 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

> On 3/22/07 17:39, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
>> NO, I'm saying don't transfer the metadata that is ridiculously
>> useless. It's a f'n generic icon. It has zero purpose. There is an
>> option in column view to not download or show it, there is no such
>> option in list view.
>
> Bullshit.
>
> You're completely wrong. The ONLY thing you can prevent in column  
> view is
> the *preview* column as a whole, or on an individual window basis. I'm
> looking at column view right now, and I see icons. Switch to list,  
> and I see
> the SAME ICONS.
>
> I don't know how many ways to get this through your head, but it is  
> NOT the
> icons in list view, it's EVERYTHING ELSE. List view shows you  
> EVERYTHING for
> EVERY FILE at ONCE.
>
> But there's icons in column view too.


Open up a column view Finder window and look at the properties. You  
can disable the icons, which instantly speeds all this stuff up if  
Chris is describing the situation I see reasonably regularly.

I'll try and dig up all the debug logs I have of Finder and AFP  
activity for cases like this, but it's not that hard to whack the AFP  
client into debug mode and check fs_usage to compare the differences.

The Finder does a fair amount of statting and stuff that isn't  
strictly necessary with network connections, and Apple's AFP server  
doesn't seem to try to minimise this.



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