On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Stephen Clark wrote: > 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 doubt it's caching, sounds more like it's stat()'ing and getting the file directory metadata for all these files. Even if all you're asking for is they're names getting a listing of a few 1000 files takes time. Add to that all the time values, sizes, thumbnails, etc. and it adds up. > So I am posting to see if anyone has a possible solution or workaround > for this. Any/all suggestions are greatly appreciated. Use a different client. Try RRBrowser of just get FTP support integrated into your application. Also FTP is a lose, switch to sftp so you're not sending your passwords on postcards for all to read. And BTW, this has nothing to do with MacFUSE, all MacFUSE does is provide the support for the filesystem, this is an issue with the filesystem, its operation, or its configuration, not with MacFUSE. -d ----- Dan Shoop [email protected] -- 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.
