If you try and do it over a very slow connection - ftp, for example - in
windows, you will notice a considerable lag if there are subfolders
containing many files.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Christian Rittener
> Sent: 01 September 2005 18:13
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Eternal flipbook
>
> Someone said:
> > In my experience, this lag not only happens with single directories
> > with lots of files in them, but also if you browse to a folder that
> > has a lot of sub directories in it and those directories together
> > contain lots of files - I don't know if Windows does some
> kind of read
> > ahead of the subfolders?
>
> and someone else said:
> > if you put each sequence into a folder of its own you speed up the
> > browsing enormously.
>
> I think the first statement is correct. I also believe it's a
> Softimage problem, not related to network usage, because in
> Digital Fusion and in Windows Explorer and Photoshop and
> whatever I use, the same top folder, containing many
> subfolders containing many files, opens in a fraction of the
> time it takes the Flipbook to open it.
>
> Christian Rittener
>
>
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