Re: Eternal flipbook

[guillaume laforge <guillaume.laforge.3d(at)gmail.com>]

Always use one folder for each passes is a good rule I think. I never
set the file path/name in render option. Instead I use a little script
who create the folder with the name of the pass. I'm sure a lot of
people on the list use this kind of script.

I also noticed that Digital Fusion is faster than Flipbook to browse and load file, so it's not only a windows pb ?

Guillaume Laforge

2005/9/1, kim aldis <kim(at)cg-soup.com>:

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.

> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:08:22 +0200, Hans,Veenendaal,AMplus
> R&D,SOJ <Hans_van_Veenendaal(at)sega.co.jp> wrote:
>
> > I have similar experiences.
> >
> > It is not only the first time it is slow, but it depends on
> how long I
> > didn't open the browser.
> >
> > Hans.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> >> Behalf Of Bernard Lebel
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:39 PM
> >> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >> Subject: Eternal flipbook
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> When using the flipbook, for me and most of the folks
> here, when we
> >> click on the (...) button to browse on disk, it can take from 30
> >> seconds to several minutes (some reported 10) before we
> actually get
> >> the file browser. As I write this, I have been waiting for over 3
> >> minutes now.
> >>
> >> Some may point at the number of projects, but I only keep the
> >> XSI_SAMPLE project in my list of project.
> >>
> >> On some other times, the file browser loads right away.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any idea?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Bernard
> >>
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