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Sometimes opening a folder with Windows Explorer can take 15-30 seconds. Even when there are just a handful of files. It is very clearly scanning the contents o
by sixothree 4y ago
Sometimes opening a folder with Windows Explorer can take 15-30 seconds. Even when there are just a handful of files. It is very clearly scanning the contents of the files (so that it can sort them by date descending).
- KerrAvon 4y agoThat’s not usually how file systems are organized; modified date and such are part of the metadata along with the filename so that you don’t have to scan the contents of the file just to list it. If it’s really that slow for a dozen files, using some kind of performance tool may be in order to figure out where the perf is going.
- sixothree 4y agoActually it doesn't matter what the sort order is. This behavior exists.
- Valmar 4y agoLinux file managers manage to be nice and snappy. On my machine, KDE's Dolphin, on an NVME, takes, maybe, 4 seconds to open and scan a folder that has more than 9000 folders and files. What's Windows' problem? It has no excuse. Maybe, just maybe, the Windows Explorer, plus the stack it runs on, is utter garbage.
- fomine3 4y agoMy experience was opposite on directory with 30k files via SMB. Windows Explorer took within a second while Dolphin took 30 seconds. Nautilus took over a minutes iirc.
- projektfu 4y agoWindows allows a lot of middleware in Explorer. The shell extensions can eat performance like crazy if they get out of hand.