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April 23rd, 2004, 03:46 PM
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| Large sequences of files choking OSX I am running 10.3.2 & it seems to have some major problems with listing large sequences of hi res files ( 2k @ 13MB each ) Anything over 10,000 seems to really choke the OS. It will eventually work through the terminal but if I use the normal OS interface it never lists the files. Any one have any suggestion on how to fix this problem? Thanks.  |
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April 23rd, 2004, 04:59 PM
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| more ram? - Maxed out list view / smaller icons? - Makes no difference organize to sub folders - No can do with the type of work we are doing The machine is a Dual 2 GHz G5 maxed out in every way we could. |
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April 23rd, 2004, 09:32 PM
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| Hmmm... I don't know if it would make any difference, but are the folders containing the tens of thousands of files on a server or accessed over a network? It seems, in my experience, that the Finder doesn't update the icons of files that aren't shown (the files you'd have to scroll down more to see) until you actually "scroll" those icons into view -- I can see the icons refresh/update from the top file to the bottom -- cascading, if you will, when I'm looking at a network share with a lot of files.
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April 23rd, 2004, 09:55 PM
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| i have a folder with ~250,000 satellite photos in it. The finder hangs for a minute when I try and open it, but it will open it. (this is in column mode). using ls from the shell is no problem t all. I too am running a Dual 2.0 G5 but I *only* have 2.5 GB of RAM.
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April 25th, 2004, 01:44 AM
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| Does Finder generate thumbnail "previews" of each file? For example if you have a folder full of pictures, it might generate a little thumbnail of each and place it where the icon would be. Same behavior might also be applied to folders. There's another file management program out there (Path Finder?) maybe it would make a difference to try that?
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April 25th, 2004, 03:28 AM
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April 26th, 2004, 04:43 AM
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| Yeah, Path Finder will make a difference. It'll take even longer. If speed is your priority, then I'm sorry, but nice as it is, Path Finder isn't the answer.
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