file sharing painfully slow

[LuKreme]

On 22-Mar-2007, at 15:16, Scott Ribe 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.

Well, I doubt that is actually what is happening.  What is almost  
certainly happening is that the Finder is checking every file for  
file type, 'magic' info, comments, labels, custom icons, contents,  
and other metadata that might be needed to sort the list view properly.

On 22-Mar-2007, at 17:11, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 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.

First it's amusing|amazing|preternatural how often Chris is right and  
everyone else is wrong, isn't it?  Second, Windows provides nearly no  
metadata, does not examine contents of files, support labels, or do  
anything other than rely on an extension to determine file type and  
icon.  OF COURSE it's going to be faster as it's doing a couple of  
orders of magnitude less.

If you have a problem with list view then DON'T USE IT.  It provides  
many benefits over the other views, but those benefits do come at a  
price, especially over a low-end broadband connection with high  
latency like DSL. FOr me, I hardly ever use list view in any window,  
except one specific network mount.  It usually has 250-300 items  
visible (with a couple of folders nested open), is sorted by date,  
and isn't slow at all.  But it's a 10bT connection to the server.

Opening a 280 item folder on my remote server (cable modem to T1  
connected server) it takes about 15-30 seconds for the window to  
appear fully populate.  If I scroll down, some of the items do not  
yet have icons.  These icons fill in over the next minute or so.  The  
Finder does not beachball at any time and the window is responsive to  
scrolling.  Even opening a image folder with over 1000 .jpg files  
does not take several minutes, nor does it beachball the finder while  
it loads the data.

I suspect the issue is the latency between your machine and the  
server and nothing to do with OS X at all.  What are your ping times  
to the remote server?  (My average is 50-80ms).

What takes a long time is icon view of a folder with a few hundred  
images and previews enabled.  But that's to be expected, no?

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