Folder takes a long time to show files

pdsnickles

pdsnickles

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I have a folder with about 142 gigs of files in it and when I open it up, it takes sometimes 15 sec. before anything shows in the folder, while the little strip across the top of the folder does its "Progress" thing.

Yes, I have Indexing on for that partition (this is a partition of my main hard drive; it is a 566g partition used only for archiving and it has 126gigs left).

What strikes me as particularly stupid about this is that it does the "progress" thing EVERY time, even if I close it and open it again 10 seconds later, it does not "remember" the indexing or whatever it just did!

Is there any way to fix this? Seems absolutely ridiculous to have a super fast computer that can't find files in a folder without waiting 15 seconds!

Dell XPS 430;
Vista Home Premium 64-bit; SP2;
Intel Core 2 Q8200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache,2.33GHz,1333FSB);
6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 DIMMs;
750GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache;
ATI Radeon HD3650 256MB Graphics
Integrated 7.1 Audio (IDT/Sigmatel 6.10.0.6017 codec 5-22-08;
6.0.6000.16386 HD Device 6-21-06);
Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    DELL XPS 430
    CPU
    Intel Core™2 Q8200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache,2.33GHz,133
    Motherboard
    7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
    Memory
    6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 DIMMs
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256MB Graphics (Integrated)
    Sound Card
    Integrated 7.1 Audio (IDT/Sigmatel 6.10.0.6017)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell -1901FP Flat Panel LCD Color Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1024 x 768 32 bit
    Hard Drives
    750 gig SATA 7200 C drive External Seagate 160gig " Western Book 160 gig " Hitachi 250 gig ALL USB except C drive
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball - (best design ever made!)
    Keyboard
    Logitech ITough Multimedia
    Internet Speed
    ATT Yahoo Elite DSL 4797kbps down, 624kbps up
Right click the folder, choose Properties from context menu. Go to Customize tab and choose All Items from the template drop down menu.

Should be faster now.

Kari
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion dv7-1199 Notebook
    CPU
    Intel Core2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz
    Memory
    4 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 9600M GT
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" laptop display, 22" LCD and 32" Full HD TV through HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1440*900, 1600*1050 and 1920*1080
    Hard Drives
    Internal: 2*Toshiba 320 GB MK3252GSX ATA, External: 1TB for backups, 1TB network drive for media
    Mouse
    Logitech MX1000 Laser (Bluetooth)
    Keyboard
    Logitech diNovo Media Desktop Laser (bluetooth)
    Internet Speed
    50 MB VDSL
    Other Info
    Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Full in English, additional Guest-user accounts in Finnish, German and Swedish (Working languages English & Swedish, Family language German, my own language, mother tongue, Finnish. I really need Ultimate to get to use Language Packs!)
My guess is that your graphics card is the bottleneck. And a 142 gig folder is a lot of stuff. If it was a smaller folder, superfetch would cache it, but not a monster like that.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
Kari said:
Right click the folder, choose Properties from context menu. Go to Customize tab and choose All Items from the template drop down menu.

Should be faster now.

Kari
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Nice try, but I already had All Items selected.

I could see it having trouble if this were a USB drive, but it's not it's a partition of my C drive! And this is a very fast computer! Doesn't seem right...
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    DELL XPS 430
    CPU
    Intel Core™2 Q8200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache,2.33GHz,133
    Motherboard
    7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
    Memory
    6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 DIMMs
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256MB Graphics (Integrated)
    Sound Card
    Integrated 7.1 Audio (IDT/Sigmatel 6.10.0.6017)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell -1901FP Flat Panel LCD Color Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1024 x 768 32 bit
    Hard Drives
    750 gig SATA 7200 C drive External Seagate 160gig " Western Book 160 gig " Hitachi 250 gig ALL USB except C drive
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball - (best design ever made!)
    Keyboard
    Logitech ITough Multimedia
    Internet Speed
    ATT Yahoo Elite DSL 4797kbps down, 624kbps up
whs said:
My guess is that your graphics card is the bottleneck. And a 142 gig folder is a lot of stuff. If it was a smaller folder, superfetch would cache it, but not a monster like that.
Click to expand...
I'm not using Thumbnails, just icons...
And while it's a lot of gigs, it's not THAT many movies.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    DELL XPS 430
    CPU
    Intel Core™2 Q8200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache,2.33GHz,133
    Motherboard
    7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
    Memory
    6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 DIMMs
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256MB Graphics (Integrated)
    Sound Card
    Integrated 7.1 Audio (IDT/Sigmatel 6.10.0.6017)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell -1901FP Flat Panel LCD Color Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1024 x 768 32 bit
    Hard Drives
    750 gig SATA 7200 C drive External Seagate 160gig " Western Book 160 gig " Hitachi 250 gig ALL USB except C drive
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball - (best design ever made!)
    Keyboard
    Logitech ITough Multimedia
    Internet Speed
    ATT Yahoo Elite DSL 4797kbps down, 624kbps up
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