file sharing painfully slow

[LuKreme]

On 23-Mar-2007, at 08:51, Scott Ribe wrote:
> Yes, it would be slower. But again, what facts do you have to back  
> up the
> assertion that icons are not the main reason? Am I forgetting some  
> other
> metadata item that is 10s of kbytes, rather than a few bytes???

Icons are obviously NOT the problem since the other views with the  
icons are not at issue.

Has anyone replicated Chris's results, btw?  (5 Minutes of  
beachballing unresponsive Finder for a folder containing 900  
images)?  I know I couldn't with my mid-level broadband connection,  
which is what leads me to believe the issue is his connection and not  
the Finder at all.

> The delay is, quite simply, unreasonably long. Either the Finder is  
> getting basic metadata

Basic meta data?  Who said that? List view gets, as far as I know,.  
ALL the meta data it can on every file.

> BTW: actually, I believe someone DID say it's not a problem, more than
> once--and that's what got Chris so worked up...

This is the Murphy rhetoric method (patent pending)

1) present a problem
2) Wait for someone to try to explain it
3) Pitch a hissy fit about how a vast Apple conspiracy is designed to  
intentionally cause this problem and that Chris is the only one who  
really understands it and anyone else who a) can't reproduce it or b)  
has completely different results is either wrong or a fanboy buying  
into the conspiracy.
4) escalate the hissy fit in response to every argument and never,  
ever provide any additional information that might actually provide a  
solution or workaround.
5) If he is ever actually proved to be wrong, pick up the goal posts  
and carry them to an entirely different field.

Been there, done that.

So far we only have Chris's supposition that the problem has ANYTHING  
to do with icons and based on my testing, I don't believe there is  
even a problem as I never had a unresponsive finder.

-- 
I find Windows of absolutely no technical interest... Mac OS X is a  
rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to  
Linux. -- Bill Joy