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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: MPW slow to open files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.133450.12991@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:34:50 +1300
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In one of my projects, I've got a subfolder with about 600 source files in it.
- MPW commands like Backup and Make take a while to execute, but I can understand
- that.
-
- What I can't understand is why opening one of those source files in the MPW
- editor should take so long. Basic file system operations don't seem any slower:
- if I use the Duplicate command to make a copy of one of those files in the
- same folder, it works at a similar speed to what it would in any other
- folder. If I ask MPW to open a nonexistent file in that folder, it returns
- an error message pretty smartly. But if I try to open a file that *does*
- exist (using either the Open command or selecting the file name and hitting
- command-D), my hard disk churns away for several seconds before the window
- opens.
-
- What I'd like to know is: what's MPW doing that's taking so long? It's not
- doing something stupid like scanning every file in that folder, is it?
-
- By the way, this happens with both MPW versions 3.3a14 and 3.3a16. I must
- admit I haven't checked to see if it happens with MPW 3.2.3. The machine
- is a Mac LC, being my home machine where I do most of my hacking (I realize
- the effect might be less noticeable on a faster machine :-)). Also I have
- my file system cache set down to 32K, because I'm prone to crash my machine
- a lot and I'm a little scared of disk corruption--in case that's a factor.
-
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