Large sequences of files choking OSX

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westcoastangler

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I am running 10.3.2 & it seems to have some major problems with listing large sequences of hi res files ( 2k @ 13MB each ) Anything over 10,000 seems to really choke the OS. It will eventually work through the terminal but if I use the normal OS interface it never lists the files.

Any one have any suggestion on how to fix this problem?

Thanks.
 
more ram? - Maxed out
list view / smaller icons? - Makes no difference
organize to sub folders - No can do with the type of work we are doing

The machine is a Dual 2 GHz G5 maxed out in every way we could.
 
Hmmm... I don't know if it would make any difference, but are the folders containing the tens of thousands of files on a server or accessed over a network? It seems, in my experience, that the Finder doesn't update the icons of files that aren't shown (the files you'd have to scroll down more to see) until you actually "scroll" those icons into view -- I can see the icons refresh/update from the top file to the bottom -- cascading, if you will, when I'm looking at a network share with a lot of files.
 
i have a folder with ~250,000 satellite photos in it. The finder hangs for a minute when I try and open it, but it will open it. (this is in column mode). using ls from the shell is no problem t all.
I too am running a Dual 2.0 G5 but I *only* have 2.5 GB of RAM.
 
Does Finder generate thumbnail "previews" of each file? For example if you have a folder full of pictures, it might generate a little thumbnail of each and place it where the icon would be. Same behavior might also be applied to folders.

There's another file management program out there (Path Finder?) maybe it would make a difference to try that?
 
westcoastangler said:
more ram? - Maxed out
list view / smaller icons? - Makes no difference
organize to sub folders - No can do with the type of work we are doing

The machine is a Dual 2 GHz G5 maxed out in every way we could.
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You mean you actually have 8 GB RAM?! :eek:
 
Yeah, Path Finder will make a difference. It'll take even longer. If speed is your priority, then I'm sorry, but nice as it is, Path Finder isn't the answer.
 
Arden said:
Yeah, Path Finder will make a difference. It'll take even longer. If speed is your priority, then I'm sorry, but nice as it is, Path Finder isn't the answer.
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In that case, I retract my suggestion and replace it with:

Open Terminal.app and start getting use to using the 'cd' command, and 'ls' to list files/folders. That's about as fast as it can get.
 
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