The worst situation of accidentally getting this number of files in 1
folder is, in my experience, with particle caches. On a number of
occasions we've had a few scenes running here with a few particles
clouds in each. If you forget to set up the particle cache folder into
sub folders, you can easily end up with tens of thousands of ptp files.
kim aldis wrote:
You stand a big chance of it all going very wrong if you put that many files
in a windows folder. Never mind performance, in windows you can hit a file
count where you get errors retreiving or listing files. It varies but 20-30
K is around the danger area. Besides, why would you want to cripple yourself
in this way?
Linux is much better at handling large file counts, but even so, you'd do
well to get better organised.
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: 01 September 2005 15:41
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Eternal flipbook
This is an very common thing IMO. When browsing a folder with
21,000 files, I have to wait forever until Windows has
updated the list over the network. This is considered to be
"normal" I fear - most common users never have that many
files in a directory.
And I also see different times with different applications,
After Effects being one of the slow candidates.
The only thing that helped me was using a Windows Server
installation instead of a plain Windows machine acting as a
server - I assume that the server version has better caching
for huge file lists?
Caching may also explain why re-accessing is faster than
browsing a folder for the first time...
I don't know about Linux though, but it may be the same issue.
If anyone knows about some tools or settings to improve that
behaviour, I'm also all ears! :-)
Cheers,
Thomas Helzle
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