Right then. To give idea of problem u have to understand Sonicos PC. I`m running NTFS on all drives with indexing turned on atm btw.
Example folder would be me racing folder. Its 80gb in size, and within the single root folder, are 3 large picture folders, 2 media folders, and 2 video folders. Each of these folders runs through a web pattern to many many subcategories. So for example in the crash videos folder there are about another 15 folders for different categories of racing, each with further folders for injury and fatality, each of which contains a further graphic folder for nasty stuff. Another folder of pictures, took 14 hours to verify which written to DVD backup, whereas a normal DVD time would be roughly 12 - 15 minutes. Basically the root folder spans out to roughly 200-250 total folders.
Now, me problem is this. If I click on one of the picture folders, that each contain roughly 50,000 files, explorer literally locks solid for up to 30 - 45 seconds, before it opens the folder tree. Once its open theres no problem with accessing files and everything seems normal. This problem also affects music folders, and various other folders where there are thousands of files. Tbh its getting quite annoying. I`m fairly sure the problem is something to do with funneling links thru the mft for thousands of files, as the video folders (which have maybe 5000 files at maybe 70gb total) respond far far faster than the picture folders (which have maybe 150,000 files at maybe 15gb total).
Now, I`ve been toying with the idea of totally restructuring the entire archive (which will take weeks, if not months) for quite a while, only this time having individual sets of root folders for each section, so sorta moving each folder in the archive up one level. So instead of like
X:/Wheels/Pictures/F1
it would be
X:/Wheels - Pictures/F1
All I want to know (esp from people who deal with servers), would be is this action likely to make any difference? Or has anyone had and cured this problem before? Cheers in adv ^_^
Example folder would be me racing folder. Its 80gb in size, and within the single root folder, are 3 large picture folders, 2 media folders, and 2 video folders. Each of these folders runs through a web pattern to many many subcategories. So for example in the crash videos folder there are about another 15 folders for different categories of racing, each with further folders for injury and fatality, each of which contains a further graphic folder for nasty stuff. Another folder of pictures, took 14 hours to verify which written to DVD backup, whereas a normal DVD time would be roughly 12 - 15 minutes. Basically the root folder spans out to roughly 200-250 total folders.
Now, me problem is this. If I click on one of the picture folders, that each contain roughly 50,000 files, explorer literally locks solid for up to 30 - 45 seconds, before it opens the folder tree. Once its open theres no problem with accessing files and everything seems normal. This problem also affects music folders, and various other folders where there are thousands of files. Tbh its getting quite annoying. I`m fairly sure the problem is something to do with funneling links thru the mft for thousands of files, as the video folders (which have maybe 5000 files at maybe 70gb total) respond far far faster than the picture folders (which have maybe 150,000 files at maybe 15gb total).
Now, I`ve been toying with the idea of totally restructuring the entire archive (which will take weeks, if not months) for quite a while, only this time having individual sets of root folders for each section, so sorta moving each folder in the archive up one level. So instead of like
X:/Wheels/Pictures/F1
it would be
X:/Wheels - Pictures/F1
All I want to know (esp from people who deal with servers), would be is this action likely to make any difference? Or has anyone had and cured this problem before? Cheers in adv ^_^
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