Joe,
Thanks for that! Worked a treat on one of our machines, but not on mine
unfortunately. What I've noticed is that the project I'm on does have a
huge number of particle clouds, all cached. So I checked in the Sim
folder and there were nearly 20 thousand files. Clearing these out had a
huge speed impact. Why would XSI be checking in all the sub-folders of a
project before I navigate there? Maybe I'll try putting the particle
sims in sub folders of the Simulation folder, and see what happens.
Luc-Eric, I set up a complete new user and access was much quicker,
until I navigated to my current project and it was back to 'dead-slow'
again. I'll see what happens with this particle cache situation.
Cheers
Chris
Joe Laffey wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
Another thing I'd like to clarify, just to make sure:
When we say checking for mapped drive, it means drivers in My Computer
in Windows Explorer. They don't need to be used by the XSI project,
it's not related to the project. It's scanning "My Computer" in order
to build the file open dialog that gets stuck on network timeout. You
need to unmapped these drive letters, if any.
On this note you can reduce much of the absurd 2 minute timeouts for
network resources by disabling the "WebClient" service in the service
under Manage My Computer (right cilck My Computer). This worthless
service is for using front page to upload files to a web server. It
does not influence your computer as a "client" to the web.
Disabling this can solve all kinds of crazy network hangups. I disable
it on every machine. With it enabled, windows tries to connect to a
non-existent, or firewalled web server on every computer it interacs
with. If this port is firewalled and simply drops packets it takes
quite some time for it to time out...
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