I'm not so sure it would be that. The files have to be scanned for display
regardless of whether they're going to be collapsed and sorting I think
you'd have to try pretty hard to make that slow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Chris Marshall
> Sent: 14 August 2006 10:45
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: For next versions of XSI
>
> presumably there's no way in XSI of switching off the auto collapsing
> of image sequences, just to test the theory?
>
> Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > That's probably because XSI Explorer is trying to collapse the
> images.
> > However, looking at the same type of explorer in Shake there is zero
> > delay... Something must be going on.
> > People who find it quick, are you working on Linux? Might this be a
> > evil MS problem? :)
> >
> > regards
> > stefan andersson
> >
> >
> > On 8/14/06, Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk> wrote:
> >> In windows, I can navigate to a sub-folder in the render_pictures
> >> folder of a project (on our network) in just a few seconds.
> >> In XSI, if I open a browser and try to navigate to the same folder,
> >> it takes approximately 5 minutes to open.
> >> Is there any advice for checking where the problem is?
> >> Thanks
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On 8/11/06, Halfdan Ingvarsson <hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> >> >> > The XSI browser uses exactly the same API as the windows
> browser
> >> >> (we've checked!) to access network files. Maybe they're using
> >> >> undocumented flags (nothing unusual there) to enumerate the files
> >> >> that might speed things up over the network, although I highly
> >> doubt it.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We do read additional bits in (for thumbnails for example) and
> >> >> > some
> >> >> file info data but nothing that would cause a huge hit.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > - ½
> >> >> >
> >>
> >>
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