Directory loading takes a long time

[Homer1]

I have a directory with approx. 100 images, 50 thumbnails and 50 related big size pictures. I made a page with those 50 thumbnails and when I press ctrl + K (adding hypertext), it takes ages to see the contents of the directory where I store the pictures. It looks like FP refreshes the directory, but it happens each time I try to open it. Something similar happens when adding pictures to webpage. Also takes very long to see and handle the directory. In older versions never happened to me. Running WinXP, thumbnail generation is set off in Windows. I didn´t find any setting to get rid of this annoyance. Will be grateful for any help. Thank you.

 

[MrKovacic]

This sounds like a ram thing. XP does use more RAM than 98. I am suprised that ever loaded fast for you, mine alwasys takes ages. You may want to try to defrag, if you drive is fraged, then the HD has to look all over for each file which will grealty increase search time. And with that may pics.... damn.

I hope this helped even a little.

 

[Homer1]

Thank you for your effort,
but I think the problem lays somewhere else. 256MB RAM should satisfy my FP and also drives were defragmented before. In FP98 the directory just popped up - lightning fast - but now it is like lazy snail...
(drive is 80GB, PII/400MHz - nothing special but for most things I do is good enough)
Thank you again, .

 

[Garridon]

Not sure if this will help, but trying running recalcuate hyperlinks.

Linda Adams
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[Kjonnnn]

What are the picture sizes?

 

[Homer1]

Hello everybody, thanks for your opinion,

recalculating makes no help, still refreshing directories each time I enter it......

Pictures have no abnormal size, aprox 10 - 80kB, JPG, RGB, size approx. from 200x300pixels to 500x700pixels.....

Generally, in FP98 you had to refresh the directories pressing F5 to see actual list of files (when you added or removed files from directory while your FP98 was running).
Now it seems to me that FP2002 does this automatically EACH time and it steals enormous time from my working schedule........ I do not know if it is a general feature in FP 2002, because some improvements from Microsoft drive me crazy...... Just want to know how to kick out this bloody feature......
Thank you all.

 

[Garridon]

Ah ha! I bet it's the size of the photos causing the problem. I have over 400 photos on my site, but I've never experienced what you're going through. However, there are two important differences--the first is that the photos are 30KB or less, and the second is that they are spread out through different directories. Eighty KB multiplied by 50 times adds up to a lot to display, especially over an Internet server. You might try an experiment and organize a few of the photos into a new directory and see if that loads faster.
Linda Adams
Linda Adams/Emory Hackman Official Web site

http://www.hackman-adams.com

Official web site for actor David Hedison:

http://www.david-hedison.com

 

[Homer1]

I already did try to open some smaller directory, it takes slightly less time but anyways, the basic problem is that FP UPDATES EACH TIME. I would not mind if it is performed only once at the beginning....
Thanks for your attention.

 

[Lupo]

Hi Homer1,

i am not sure if it is has something to do with FP. I think it has something to do with your PC. I'am working on a PIII/600 Mhz, 512 MB Ram. A couple of weeks ago I spent my PC an 80GB HD (only one partition). Since then, I have the similar problems as you have. Do you have more then one partition on the 80 GB HD?

rgds
Lupo WEB Designer & WEB Developer (as per my working contract) and ASP Newbie

 

[Homer1]

Hi Lupo!
Good to hear your opinion. My comp is also running one Western Digital WD800AB(80GB)drive with only one partition. Maybe this is something what makes also my FP lazy..... I used to run the same hard drives under Win98/FP98 and never experienced even slightest slow-down of my PF.
Thanks for your hint - will try to split my drive some day...... It´s now over 50% full and will take some time to backup everything before I touch the drive......

Many thanks, good luck!
Homer1