>Hi Bret,
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>I believe the lag is in the OS (client or server I'm not sure). I had a similar problem with thousands of image files in a directory. You'll most likely see the effects from explorer too. When you open the directory in explorer do you notice the delay as well?
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>Anyway, my solution was to break up the directory structure to limit the number of files in each folder. I used a numeric filename to do this. For example:
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>A File named 00000101 would be filed under \00\00\01\00000101.TIF
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>This approach limited the number of entries in any given directory to 100 and speed improved tremendously.
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Thanks Ken for the suggestion, I will have to run that by the Network people and the owners of the drawings. And you know how painfull it is to talk to the Network folks. :) thanks again