Whichway opened this issue on Aug 07, 2009 · 200 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 08 August 2009 at 11:59 PM
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My personal experience with this is thet the library count fills very very slowly.. so that I have to walk away and fill my tea cup in order to have all the items appear, that being said.. once it does find all of the items I find it browses much fast, loads much faster and other then the fact that I had to manually change ALOT of pose files to the lowercase pz2 extension to have them read I love it!
If you have several thousand things in a folder, that would be the OS making it slow. If you have only a few dozen in any given folder, then there could be something needs fixing.
The GUI should be loading items about as fast as it is possible to read your hard disk.
The thing is that if you have external runtimes on network drives, or slow external hard drives, and you have a lot of files, there is no way to read them faster than the OS can read them, period, and maybe they are just slow all by themselves.
For example, when I open one of my longer folders in Windows Explorer, it can take a half a second to show it, even though there are only about 100 files in there, the first time I open it. That delay is the OS going out to actually read my disk. The second time, its instantaneous.
Now suppose you have your main runtime and ten external runtimes. There are 9 categories in each, so that is 90 folders that need scanning, minimum. In addition, if you left any nested folders open, they are also scanned on startup. So typically you have 100 folders that have to be scanned. That could easily take 30 seconds if your disk drive is normal, and 3 minutes if your disk drive is slow. That is what used to keep Poser startup from being quick. At least, now, it happens in the background, and you don't have to wait.
Do you have 10,000 RPM SCSI drives or 7200 RPM SATA drives or 5400 RPM IDE drives? I just went from fast to slow by an order of magnitude listing those technologies. When did you buy your disk drives. If they are external, how are they connected. (If you say USB, well there's your problem.)
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