I am not sure if this will help on this issue but is worth a shot. There are some other setting we change on the folder view settings that we set when we have remote users connecting remotely with a VPN. This seems to help with the speed when they are browsing the folder structure.
First change the folder view to classic the XP view tries to obtain a lot of info with this view. Next Folder Options>view>advanced setting set the following. Not checked Not checked Checked Not Checked Checked Checked Second option Not checked Not checked Not checked First option Checked Not checked Not checked Checked Not checked Not checked Then apply to all folders Hopefully this will help Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? > On NTFS systems, this is most likely app-related such as Explorerer where they have to deal with > slogging through all the extra files, as noted by another poster. An App opening a specific file will > see almost no degradation because the NTFS uses a tree structure to maintain fast access to a file by name. Very true. Getting that one file is very quick. The reason that Explorer is so slow is that it has to at the very least get the name of every single file. In the DOS days, that was relatively quick and easy (a directory of 20,000 files would take up about 320K). With NTFS, though, each file typically uses 8K, so 20,000 files would take up 150MB. So doing a directory listing of 20,000 files is like loading a 150MB files. Worse, if the directory is fragmented (which is very common), it takes even longer. With millions of files, it can take hours just to do directory listings. As someone else pointed out, disabling the last access time can help; also, disabling 8.3 can help too (only on computers with no programs that need 8.3, so you have to be careful with that). Disabling 8.3 can help a lot if the first 5-6 characters of the filenames are often the same. -Scott --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
