Re: disk access from XSI gone crazily slow

[Chris Marshall <chris.marshall(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk>]

...and was the printer ready?

kim aldis wrote:
> Large numbers of files on any OS can be disruptive, on windows it's plain
> bloody weird. Errors become intermittent and unhelpful and odd things start
> happening. I've had file opens come back with an error saying 'printer not
> ready'.
>
>
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Chris Marshall
> > Sent: 06 May 2008 16:38
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: disk access from XSI gone crazily slow
> >
> > 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
> >
> >     


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