So I am in a real bind. I just fully switched from Windows to Mac which is great. However the one thing I mainly need for work is to work directly on my company's FTP server which is in a remote location. Through windows I accomplish this fine with Webdrive, I can map as network drive and work directly off the drive as I would any other folder, saving uploading/downloading using a regular FTP program.
Now that I have moved to Mac (10.6.6), I went to install Webdrive, and use this same functionality and as before. However I have run into a serious issue; Webdrive connects perfectly to my FTP server on Mac, and mounts fine, and when I browse to the volume in either Finder, or Pathfinder I get the initial directories which is fine, and I can browse into a few of the subfolders that have a small amount of files fine. My issue lies in that the main folders I need to work with are extremely large folder structures. They have approximately right under 1000 subfolders, all containing different amounts of subfolders and files of all sizes. Trying to browse into these folders is pretty much impossible. I sat on the phone with Apple tech support for over an hour trying different things and they could still not give me any suggestions as to how to get this working properly if it's even possible. When I browse to those folders, finder just sits and has to (I'm guessing do some sort of caching) on the entire directory of thousands of folders/files. I finally let it sit long enough and it took about 15 minutes to finally see the directory listing and then drilling down into the subfolders took long amounts of time as well. I have troubleshooted my FTP server, and have no issues connecting through it with any FTP software. Using 3rd party FTP software I get an instant dir listing of the large folders and can work with them fine, so I am at my wits end as to what I can do to get my a finder to work like this and view the folders/files quickly. Basically I have had no issues with this on windows, or using ftp 3rd party software on mac or windows, just mounting it through finder. So I am posting to see if anyone has a possible solution or workaround for this. Any/all suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en.
