Re: [Gimp-user] File Saving in Windows

[Patrick Shanahan <paka opensuse org>]

* tastethewine <forums gimpusers com> [09-08-19 16:35]:
> > Maybe you can try using ubuntu-studio distro from a DVD drive and in
> > terminal type $ rm /bin/ping* to delete ping on system start.
> >
> > 2019-09-08 12:39 Гринуич, Mark Morin <mdmpsyd gwi net>:
>
> Thank you and everyone for your suggestions.  Having spend the best part of the
> day running tests with a stopwatch, I now believe that there may not be one
> silver bullet but that behavior seems equally aggravated by the drives
> themselves.  The time to fetch the directory info, in my testing so far, varies
> from a minimum of 1:45 minutes when only one drive is attached, no matter which
> drive, to 8:21 minutes when 5 external drives are attached.  Though I did not
> find a linear relation between the number of attached drives and the times. If I
> am re-saving a file that originated from a large drive, heavy with data, I get
> the longest times.  Seems obvious, yet it is still true, that my control tests
> with PS showed no delay at all under any of the various circumstances.  So I am
> learning what not to do.  1:45 minutes still seems pretty long, though, compared
> to less than a second with PS.  All my devices seem to be in working order. 
> Should probably review drivers for different models. For the moment, will
> develop work flows that avoid Save As.

why don't you *adjust* your work flow to utilize a local rather than
attached drive and move the files to the attached drive when you have
finished?

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