Folders in Drive not loading data

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Folders in Drive not loading data

I have a 2006 Mac Pro running 10.7 that I use as a Media Server.

Latley when I go to access data from a fairly large folder(several hundred giga bytes) it does not load or takes a very long time to load.

I transfered all data to another drive and the same thing occurs.

Is their a file size limit for each folder? Doing reasearch online I foudn that there is a theoretical limit but it is very large.
Does anyone have any insight?

Thanks,

Jason K

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 31, 2013 6:05 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 31, 2013 8:55 PM in response to jkanjiravilyil

The finder tries to show a preview for each file in a folder. At about a hundred, it struggles. If there is a way to get the number of files in a folder down, OR to use a view that does not include a preview, display will be much snappier.

Are you connecting by Gigabit Ethernet? Have you enabled Jumbo frames as well?

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Answer 2

The hatter

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Jan 1, 2014 8:18 AM in response to jkanjiravilyil

Is that drive full or 60% free? a good solid 7.2k drive of say 2TB from WD Black series or another enterprise drive?

What and where is your boot drive? The best upgrade I made to my 1,1 was the 3rd and newest Samsung SSD. now $160 for 250GB makes Lion (or SL) run like the wind, loading apps, booting, managing, and all the data is and should always, no matter what, not be on t he boot drive. Assume it isn't anyway in your case either.

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