is it windows 7 or whs at fault ?

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  Hi all
  I have 2 pc's with windows 7 pro installed also a WHS PP3 on my server I have 100's of pictures in lots of draws inside the picture draw.
  The proble is that when you ask it to show large icons it takes 10 mins to show all the icons correctly. while I am wating I can still open the pics i can do everything with them just do not get to see the little preview of them on the screen.  When it does show them if i move back a draw it loses the pics if i come back and when i move down the draw it has to update them all again.
  
  Please can some one help is it a server or client issue, I did think of cashing mem but cant see where the settings for it may be.
  
  Many thanks for all your help
  
  IAN(UK)

  
  I don't have that problem (but I'm not using Power Pack 3 beta on my server either).  Do you have that problem from both 7 clients?  Do you have any other clients you could try?  First thing I would suggest is to uninstall PP3 and see if that fixes it.  If it does, you should file a bug report on Connect.  If it doesn't, you might try running chkdsk /r on all of the hard drives in your server.  See the FAQ post:  How to check all the drives in your server for errors for details.

  Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:34 AM

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  Thanks for that ill go and try them out
  
  Ian

  Thursday, September 3, 2009 8:31 AM
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  You are describing a network issue. In order to generate the thumbnail icons that you see, your client computer has to read the actual image files from the server and resize them locally. It may then also need to update the thumbnail database that Windows stores in every folder (thumbnails.db).

  
  

  Your best bet is probably going to be to use some sort of image management software that stores a thumbnail database locally, and that doesn't update/regenerate thumbnails every time you open a folder.

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  I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)

  • Proposed as answer by Ken WarrenModerator Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:02 PM

  Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:02 PM

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  Hi ken,
  
  Ken any Idea's on any names of apps that can do the job.
  
  you say it sounds network that makes sence, I have a 10/100 switch between ma and the server if i upgraded to a 1gig would you think that may fix the problem ?
  
  Thanks for your help ..
  
  Ian

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  I'm not going to recommend an application; I have no idea how you normally use your photos, etc. (and this isn't the place for it anyhow). There are many such tools available; I'm sure some offer an attractive combination of:

  • features you need
  • workflow you can live with
  • network support
  • price

  I happen to use Adobe Lightroom, but it's not cheap, and network performance isn't the best...

  
  

  As for the switch, if your network will otherwise support gigabit ethernet speeds, then yes you will see significantly better performance overall. If it won't (bad cabling, for example) then you could conceivably see worse performance...

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  • Marked as answer by Ian Bennington Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:36 PM

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