>Doug,
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>We have about that many files in a VSS project. I don't ever recall it being that slow. Are all the files on the same volume or do they spann? Oh, and we use NT, so I guess it isn't quite apples to apples.
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>--Thom

In this case, they are all located on the same server along with the VSS database. The server is a Win95 box and I had thought this probably isn't the most efficient beast, so I copied all of the relavent files to a Novell 3.12 server and it took 4.5 minutes to load! I couldn't believe it took almost three times longer from the Novell server, I expected it to be faster. Both servers are P150's, the Win95 box has 32M RAM and the Novell box has 132M RAM w/4GB mirrored storage.

Once this started happening I decided to copy all project files and VSS database to a local drive and the best time I could come up with was 45 seconds. This test should have taken out all LAN/Network server bottlenecks. The workstations are all running various Win95 variants.

We are still looking into why this is so slow. It must be a config option within VFP or VSS. We tested on several different computers with the same results. We haven't done a lot of "tuning" of VSS and maybe one of the default config settings is causing the slowdown. Again, if we turn VSS support off in VFP, it loads in seconds.

Any ideas what to check? Sorry for the blabbering...

-Doug-