While the issues may indeed be related, I'm not entirely sure that this sounds like the same issue as the one I'm having. My problem (referred to above) is not related to tagging, it is not effected by how long MC11 is open, and it does not "go away" if I reboot -- it's always there. I experience slowness simply "looking" at mp3s over the network -- i.e. when I browse folders containing mp3s, I get a LONG pause before the mp3s in that folder are displayed. During this time, the network connection (100mbps) shows a consistant 6%. If I copy the SAME folder from within MC11 and paste it to a local drive, it uses about 80% of the network connection. In other words, copying and pasting an entire folder in MC11 takes less time than simply "looking at" the same folder.
This is on shared, mapped drives between machines using WinXP Pro.
The question was asked in the other thread whether I was in a view that uses thumbnails. The answer is no -- this is browsing mp3s using the basic, main view. As long as MC11 is kept open, I do not get the long pauses when browsing folders that have ALREADY been opened during this session, but once I close MC11 and return. the pauses return on the same folders.
If the issues being discussed here are truly related and if this is the thread we're going to use to discuss this, it would help if the title of this thread was changed to reflect the fact that this is about a "network" problem, and not just a "tagging" problem (my problem has nothing to do with tagging, so the title is misleading in my case.) At the moment, the title does not mention "networks," so people searching for information on the issue I'm seeing will definitely not be drawn to this thread.
Thanks for further assistance with this,
Larry