Hello, I've just joined and, after a scout around earlier to see if anyone had posted along these lines, I have a question.
My setup was laptop running XP and iView with local files. As part of a laptop upgrade I also swapped to Expression Media and moved files to an XP machine that had a spare (new) drive in it. The old laptop could cope no more... three year old laptops with 512MB of memory and a 30GB drive don't take kindly to CS2 Premium

, bless it!
With local files iView had been very fast at moving to different ratings, labels or catalogues (though I did notice that using folders was slow at times).
With remote files and Expression Media everything went odd. I had presumed it must be an EM thing - after all, Peter's book indicated no problems with speed when using iView. Indeed, one of the reasons I purchased it was to allow me to work on files that I only had thumbnails locally of. Trying to browse them with Bridge might have been "a bridge too far" for my old machine.
Today, however, I tested by uninstalling EM, installing iView and checking... the results were the same. Conclusion... something in my configuration is awry. But what?
I posted on the Microsoft EM forum the other week. No responses. So I'm trying here in case the wisdom of sages can tell me where I have made a mistake.
Here is the situation:
Catalogue is local in "my documents" folder. Files are remote on a Z: drive.
With the Z: drive DISCONNECTED: everything goes very fast. I can open folders, I can look at catalog sets etc.
With the Z: drive CONNECTED: everything grinds to a halt. Switching from one catalog to the next slows to a crawl whilst it seems to go and check the network for my files and reconstruct what is already in the database.
So for speed I could disconnect Z:, do a search, reconnect Z: and then look at the files. What a mess though!
For the moment I have copied all of the files to my shiny new laptop. Rather than use the server as a "server" I will use the network drive as my first backup (the second backup will be to an external USB drive on the server and third backup to a pair of DVDs). It is a sad way to have to work but I can't wait forever for views to appear.
Can anyone think what I might need to change to allow the system to work as fast with the files connected as it does when they are disconnected? It has to be something really silly but I'm blessed if I can spot it.
Thanks.
Mark
(ps, forgive my spelling catalog/catalogue - I'm English

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