I have some NAS drives, which are mounted via smb. When I want to make a folder compare and copy or move files from the local HDD to or from the NAS it can take a huge amount of time before something happens. BC4 says "Scanning folders". Even if I force open all sub folders, it will insist on (apparantly) looking at each and every file before doing anything. This is really annoying.
Example: I have my photo archive on the NAS. I have transferred new pictures from my camera to my mac and want to place the edited pictures on my NAS. I open BC4 and have the local HDD on one side and the NAS on the other. On the NAS I have pictures from when I started taking them - that means many many thousands, in hundreds of folders.
So, if I want to transfer the most recent ones (e.g. a new folder called "Claus' birthday 2018") to the NAS it will take 20-30 minutes after I ask BC4 to copy the folder to the NAS. Argh! That is really annoying.
WHY does this happen - and HOW can I circumvent this?
Thanks for your assistance.
PS: This has been a problem always...
Example: I have my photo archive on the NAS. I have transferred new pictures from my camera to my mac and want to place the edited pictures on my NAS. I open BC4 and have the local HDD on one side and the NAS on the other. On the NAS I have pictures from when I started taking them - that means many many thousands, in hundreds of folders.
So, if I want to transfer the most recent ones (e.g. a new folder called "Claus' birthday 2018") to the NAS it will take 20-30 minutes after I ask BC4 to copy the folder to the NAS. Argh! That is really annoying.
WHY does this happen - and HOW can I circumvent this?
Thanks for your assistance.
PS: This has been a problem always...
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