Create new folder takes 10 seconds

[excession]

Hi

Creating new folders in totalcommander takes about 10 seconds. I've tried creating new folders from Explorer and it takes next to nothing there.

Can anyone tell me whats wrong and how to fix it?

Oh.. and I've tried in v. 6.03a and 6.02 and now difference.

Thanks in advance

[Clo]

2excession
Hello !
Welcome on board !
- To make a dir. in Explorer so named "A" is certainly faster than to create one in TC so named "My_Folder_to_keep_the_photos_of_year_2004" !
- I can't confirm this.
- F7 opens the dialog, when I've typed the name in the field and pressed [OK] or "Enter", the creation is pratically immediate : < 0.5 second, even with my old PII 350 under Win 98 SE - TC 6.03a.
- Please, let us know some infos about your OS and hardware (Free RAM amount if possible too…)

  Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[SanskritFritz]

2excession
If this happens on a strange file system, like an usb drive, then you might try using compatibility mode (Options / Copy/Delete / "Use compatibility mode for the following drives:")

[excession]

A typical folder name would be "200411121320" - I create maybe 15 a day..

OS: win2k SP4
CPU: P4 2.6 GHz
RAM: 512 MB - about 200 free

I forgot to mention that the drive in question is a standard hard disk probably 7200rpm (whatever Dell use)

I have no problems on USB drives

[Hacker]

Maybe a virus scanner running in background?

Roman

[excession]

I've tried stopping "On demand scan" (McAfee) and it makes no diff.

[Hacker]

You could try and look at what's happening by using Filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml .

Roman

[Clo]

2excession
Hi again!
- What icons do you use in the file-lists for the folders ?
- The default ones (embedded in TC-EXE), or an external library stated in <wincmd.ini> ?
- Also : some “Dell” computers have special owner's features about icon-display, like to enlarge pics or so…
- You might check this, if existing. The slowdown could be the new folder-icon display only for folders on a hard-disk, while USB-sticks could be ignored by special Dell's settings…
- Just a thought.

 K R
Claude
Clo

[excession]

I've jsut tried running FileMon, but I don't really know ehat I should be looking for.

I can see that when I create a new folder it reads and writes a few times and then writes to treeinfo.wc a lot

Could it be Totalcommander indexing my folders?

[excession]

Using default icons.

The comp has a clean install from my company. I don't think there is any Dell stuff on it

[excession]

13:57:43 TOTALCMD.EXE:2120 OPEN C:\Tests\programtest\the program\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: All
13:57:43 TOTALCMD.EXE:2120 DIRECTORY C:\Tests\programtest\the program\ SUCCESS FileBothDirectoryInformation: 2001411121347
13:57:43 TOTALCMD.EXE:2120 CLOSE C:\Tests\programtest\the program\ SUCCESS


it does the above a couple of hundred times... if that means anything

[Clo]

2excession
Indeed, all new folders are added in <treeinfo.wc>!
- @ home, I've a 44 KB file for the drive C:\ …
- It's possible that the size does matter, whether you have a huge number of folders. The new folder name+path is written following the alphabetical order… That could take a while to check the file to write at the good location if you have several thousands folders! But be fast for a USB-stick having a very small tree recording file…
- This can be added with an icon set-time too...
- What is the size of your <treeinfo.wc> ?

K R
Claude
Clo

[excession]

treeinfo is 6.5 MB

[excession]

Can i safely delete treeinfo.wc ?

I've tried removing it and then creating a new folder and it does so immediatly - nice.

But can I just delete treeinfo?

[Clo]

2excession

treeinfo is 6.5 MB

Yep !!! It's really huge !!!
- I guess it's not advised to delete that file, in anyway I suppose that it should be rebuilt at the next start up…
- The issue seems here. There is one file <treeinfo.wc> per drive; If you have a single partition and a very big HD, that file becomes huge; I don't see how to solve this on the moment… Hoping someone should have an idea, and the Author specially…

 KR
Claude
Clo