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Tagging and Relinking Super Slow
JimH:
--- Quote from: blgentry on July 25, 2023, 08:38:17 pm ---If you are certain that it is fast with everything other than MC, then maybe you have some sort of database corruption?
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Or the data MC is accessing is on the dying drive.
blgentry:
I just did a few experiments with an HFS+ (spinning) drive I have attached to a Mac.
1. Created 3,000 files in a single directory. Then navigated there with Rename, Move, and Copy Files > Directory > Browse. It took about 15 seconds for MC to enumerate the files and show them.
A. Finder shows the files pretty much instantly.
2. Created 7800 directories in a single top level directory and navigated to them with RM&C as above. MC shows these instantly.
A. Finder shows these instantly.
3. Created 7800 files in a single directory and repeated. MC takes about 50 seconds to enumerate.
A. Finder shows the files instantly.
I conclude that MC is going to be "slow" enumerating directories with THOUSANDS of files in a single directory. But it is very fast with THOUSANDS of directories in a single top level directory.
Does the OP have thousands of files in a single directory?
Brian.
JimH:
Finder may be pre-indexing the files.
An external drive may not perform as well.
blgentry:
MC is clearly doing a stat() or similar call to determine some information about files and folders. It's not a big deal. Having thousands of files in a single folder isn't a very good idea; particularly for music.
Whether or not this applies to the OP is unknown until he responds.
Brian.
bob:
--- Quote from: blgentry on July 26, 2023, 08:21:04 am ---MC is clearly doing a stat() or similar call to determine some information about files and folders. It's not a big deal. Having thousands of files in a single folder isn't a very good idea; particularly for music.
Whether or not this applies to the OP is unknown until he responds.
Brian.
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That's a good deduction. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's doing a stat().
It's really interesting how different filesystems are optimized for various operations.
To me APFS seems really slow on deleting a lot of files.
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