Lionel, Webdrive worked fine on Windows, but Windows and most everything else on it does not work fine, and never has compared to OSX... but thats a whole different argument and OPINION. :) I used both but finally made the switch to fully use Mac.
Bryan, I did try different cache settings, but didn't change the speed of anything. I normally just use single user which says its the fastest. Dan, I posted this here just trying to find a suggestion as to what the problem might be as I couldn't find any answers googling, or with Apple support. The problem is basically with Finder and as you stated just having to pull all the metadata etc. I found that using Xfile is 200% faster than Finder and Path Finder. Also a workaround I'm using is browsing past the large directories in terminal to the smaller directories I need, and using "open ." to open the current directory bypassing having to view the larger directories which is working a lot better now. On Feb 20, 9:49 pm, Dan Shoop <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
