Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[AlFire]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700
> >
> > this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It
> > is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes
> > veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the
> > file is quite deep in the directory structure namely:
> >
> > W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c
>
> Which version of Emacs is that?
22.2.1

> Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use
> TAB-completion somewhere along the way?  If the latter, please tell
> _exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help
> you gathering this info).

no tab completion involved  - provided the full path to the find-file and hit 
<return> . In addition drag-and-drop as well as the reading the file during the 
desktop-load is slow as well.

Andy