Of course, as you said, too many files in a directory is a bad idea, and
networks can cause problems. These two points belong to the realm of
common sense, but the slow flipbook problem belongs to the realm of THE
BUG. ;-)
kim aldis wrote:
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.
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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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