Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:03 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700
> >>
> >> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It
> >> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes
> >> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the
> >> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely:
> >>
> >> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c
> > 
> > Which version of Emacs is that?
> 22.2.1
> 
> > 
> > Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use
> > TAB-completion somewhere along the way?  If the latter, please tell
> > _exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help
> > you gathering this info).
> > 
> 
> no tab completion involved  - provided the full path to the find-file and hit <return> . In addition drag-and-drop as well as the reading the file during the desktop-load is slow as well.

Does it help to set w32-get-true-file-attributes to a nil value?