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One folder opening very slowly.?

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xanubhavx Original post #1
May 9, 2012 at 2:16 PM
One of my folder (with 9 sub folders) opening very slowly in my one HD's volume(34.5GB), i am having 1GB of RAM with Win XP SP2 and that folder contains about 10GB of data. Help me? :cry:
koolent
koolent #2
May 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM
What is the HDD Speed ?
Vyom
Vyom #3
May 9, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Usually when there are a LOT of files in a folder, it tends to open slow.
You can try to turn off indexing on the drive, and then segregate the contents of the sub folder which contains the largest number of files.
celldweller1591
celldweller1591 #4
May 9, 2012 at 9:00 PM
I think this simple tutorial will walk you through the basic troubleshooting - Link.
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xanubhavx #5
May 17, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Well thanks for your help guys, it really help me! but in the end i just rearrange my sub-folders to some different location... :cool: :-D
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alishakapoor491 #6
Jun 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Delete some data from it and if still the problem persists then there must a virus problem in it.......
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xanubhavx #7
Jun 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM
alishakapoor491 said:
Delete some data from it and if still the problem persists then there must a virus problem in it.......
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Deleting some data is not much helping me...
so i re-arrange the folder. and it is now working fine..

By the way, thanks for your suggestion..
Zangetsu
Zangetsu #8
Jun 18, 2012 at 11:35 AM
^u can defrag the drive once in a month.
topgear
topgear #9
Jun 19, 2012 at 5:14 AM
this sometime happens with folder with lots of images, songs and vids and if there's any app installed on the pc which wants to auto tag them - I had a large folder with lots of pics and opening that would take a long time as acdsee was trying read the tga/exif info everytime I open that folder - after uninstalling acdsee the issue is gone for now and I'm using faststone max view as an alternative imageviewer app.
abhidev
abhidev #10
Jun 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM
topgear said:
this sometime happens with folder with lots of images, songs and vids and if there's any app installed on the pc which wants to auto tag them - I had a large folder with lots of pics and opening that would take a long time as acdsee was trying read the tga/exif info everytime I open that folder - after uninstalling acdsee the issue is gone for now and I'm using faststone max view as an alternative imageviewer app.
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faststone is really a nice piece of s/w
ankit.kumar010203
ankit.kumar010203 #11
Jun 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Scan It With Good Antivirus.....If There Is No Any Virus Than Run Your Pc Tuner Software It Must Fix It....!!!!!!
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nicholasnicholas #12
Jun 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Hello Thanks.It is very nice form..One folder is not opening..Delete it
topgear
topgear #13
Jun 21, 2012 at 2:42 AM
^^ welcome to TDF .

and there's lots of difference between one folder not opening and a folder opening very slowly and sometime you can't even delete a folder which is not opening at all ;-)