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Does folder caching cache only the directories or directories and their files?


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I notice when browsing my Media share that I'm seeing drives spin up when I think they shouldn't even though I have Folder Caching enabled and set to a level of 5 (was 4 but I changed it to test).

 

My structure is like this:

 

Media

-movies

---movie folder

-----movie file(s)

-music

---Artist

-----Album

-------music files

-tv

---show

-----season #

-------show file(s)

 

I thought that having folder caching installed and enabled that it should keep mounting drives to a minimum, but allow you to browse whatever is on the share until you access a file. This isn't how it's behaving though so I'm wondering if I'm not understanding it.

 

At a depth of 5 I would think that my above structure wouldn't spin up drives while browsing the furthest folder. No?

 

I had it at 4, but changed it to 5, stopped/started the array, spun down the drives and tried again, but they're still spinning up sooner than I thought.

 

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks.

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I notice when browsing my Media share that I'm seeing drives spin up when I think they shouldn't

Any kind of thumbnail display or attempt to detect content type will access the file and cause a spinup. What are you using to browse the share?
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I notice when browsing my Media share that I'm seeing drives spin up when I think they shouldn't

Any kind of thumbnail display or attempt to detect content type will access the file and cause a spinup. What are you using to browse the share?

 

Ahhhhh..... Ok. That makes sense.

 

I'm using Finder on Mac.

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