Extraneous "Reading Directories" of the other panel

[ghisler(Author)]

Opening a similar sized "epub" 130K to 39 seconds.

What program do you use to open epub files? Maybe that viewer is just slow? Does it also take that long to open the file from Explorer?

[louwin]

I suggest to boot Windows into Safe Mode and repeat the same TC actions there. If it's fast in Safe Mode, my assumption is correct.

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! Dalai! You were SO RIGHT!!!! In Safe Mode!

Renaming files in the RH panel was instantaneous! Right clicking was instantaneous! Moving 6 files from RH panel to LH panel wasn't instantaneous but took 2 seconds! Displaying the 81K files directory (double clicking it) took 3 seconds!

Back in "Normal" mode and ALL the times were back to long long long!!!!

I had a good look at Task Manager and NOTHING was hogging the CPU but you have to be right! SOMETHING IS!!!!

THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

Now I have to find the ******* process hogging my system!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKS AGAIN!!!!

[louwin]

Opening a similar sized "epub" 130K to 39 seconds.

What program do you use to open epub files? Maybe that viewer is just slow? Does it also take that long to open the file from Explorer?

I use "SumatraPDF" to read "epub" files and it is just as slow through Explorer!

Please read Dalai's response and my response to him.

In Safe mode the "epub" files took about 10 seconds to open....

Now the clincher!!!!!!!

In normal mode (when something was hogging my system) and TC was taking 20->30 seconds to read/display the 81K book directory - Explorer took a couple of seconds to do the same! So whatever was hogging the system didn't impact Explorer!!!!! So Explorer was the same speed in Safe Mode AND Normal Mode!!!

Strange or not????

Thanks AGAIN

[Horst.Epp]

I use the TC SumatraPDF plugin to view EPUB files.
The response times are always max a few seconds, regardless of the size.
The sizes of the larger once are in the range of megabytes, up to 16MB.

[Dalai]

In Safe mode the "epub" files took about 10 seconds to open....

Does it always take this long or just the first time? Does it depend on the epub file? Or is your Windows system on a hard drive?

[petermad]

2louwin

Maybe it is your anti-malwre program that slows TC down - Maybe you could test with the virus scanner disabled.

[louwin]

Does it always take this long or just the first time? Does it depend on the epub file? Or is your Windows system on a hard drive?

I'm tidying up a library of books. I do a few files at a time and they all take about the same time to open - in normal mode about 40 seconds and in safe mode (for the test) about 10 seconds. The filesize doesn't appear to have an effect on the opening time. My Windows 10 system is on an 250Gb SSD.

I vaguely remember doing this MANY years ago with a 100K book library and I didn't remember it taking such long times.

Thanks again

[louwin]

2louwin

Maybe it is your anti-malwre program that slows TC down - Maybe you could test with the virus scanner disabled.

I normally use two browsers - Firefox and Opera and I closed them both and the times remained long. I use free Avast and I'll try to work out how to disable it and test, once I find out how to do it....

Edit: Disabled Avast for 10 minutes and had not effect on the long times

[louwin]

Does it always take this long or just the first time? Does it depend on the epub file?

A surprising response to Dalai and others who responded about SumatraPDF!!!!

WOW!

I went into Settings/Options and unticked "Remember opened files" and the (epub) files NOW open ALMOST instantaneously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, basically my entire question now is on the time it takes to display a large directory and move files into a large directory...

Again, thanks to ALL responders

[ghisler(Author)]

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