March 9, 201412 yr Is there any memory handling or speed advantage to separating your movies into individual folders? I ask because my directory listing for my movies share is lethargic- even with cache-dirs installed, doing a directory listing will commonly spin up several drives- each time, halting the directory listing window until the drive's awakened. Once all the drives are spinning, the directory listing's smooth-sailing. I've turned off many of the details in Windows (size, updated, etc.) I'm doing a detail listing- so no thumbnails are involved. I never got into the habit of separating my movies (into individual folders) because I typically don't keep subtitles. I'm wondering if I've not made a mistake there? My TV folder doesn't lag (and they're, naturally, all nested in sub-folders).. ?? BTW: Server is 5.05, browsing machine is Windows XP-Pro.
March 9, 201412 yr With Cache_Dirs installed AND RUNNING (Did you set it to auto-run on boot?) you should not need the drives to spin up to get a directory listing. But independent of that, I suspect this issue has more to do with how many drives the share spans than the specific folder structure you've chosen. If all your movies were in individual folders, but were still spread across all your disks, those drives would still need to spin up for a directory listing. I have every movie in its own folder just for organization purposes ... but if you're storing the movies in a single file there's no real reason to do that [i store them in the original DVD structure with .VOB files, etc.]. I suspect your either don't have Cache_Dirs configured correctly, or it's simply not running.
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