On Nov 13, 2003, at 8:40 AM, Ann Richmond wrote: > I still wonder why copying the whole drive from 9 to 10 was sooo quick > and now from 10 to 9 it is sooooo slow. It has copied only 29.5MB of > 1.3GB in about 35 mins. Says I have now 34 hours to go!!! Ouch indeed! > But why the difference in directions I wonder?
My guess is that the transfer from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X used Appleshare/IP and the transfer from Mac OS X to Mac OS 9 is using plain old Appleshare. There is an amazing difference in speed between the two because Appleshare has a lot more overhead and uses packets that are much smaller. Maybe you're seeing one of the main reasons why Apple is throwing the old-fashioned Appleshare overboard. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
