| Re: FoxTrot Pro 6.6.3 (built 1988) installation slows down all of our Macs and even the network when opening the index-file [message #1000 is a reply to message #999] |
Tue, 18 February 2020 12:54   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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> Sascha Ballweg wrote:
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> Hi, I need some help, please! Our FoxTrot Pro 6.6.3 (built 1988) installation slows down all of our Macs and even the internal network and the web-access, when opening the index-file.
It seems your WorkMirror drive is a network volume, which may be the cause of this slowness, depending of the speed of your access to this volume. If this volume is a shared folder folder from another Mac, one solution would be to use the index sharing functionality of FoxTrot Pro 5-user, so the index will be built and updated on your distant machine, instead of through the network.
You may also consider creating multiple index files, and having different schedules for those: a frequent schedule for the index containing local files that are updated frequently, and a less frequent one (or no schedule at all) for your WorkMirror drive, or for large files you update less frequently.
You have a schedule to update your index at 12:10 PM, which should be executed if your Mac is not in sleep mode at this time, even if FoxTrot is not launched. If your Mac was powered off at the specified time, the missed schedule will not be executed; if it was in sleep mode at the specified time, the update will be executed when waking up the machine (even if the application is not launched).
In your screenshot, your last updated ended yesterday at 12:47, so I think it should have no reason to update today at 11:25; did you manually update your index? Was your Mac shut down, or sleeping, or logged to a different macOS user account, before you launched FoxTrot this morning?
Indexing slows down your machine, especially if you have a hard drive and no SSD, but it should remain usable. This can however depend on many factors (size of the index, number of files that have been modified, size and type of these files, and of course, network drives may be very slow, depending of your network and of the location of this drive…).
Jérôme - Foxtrot Engineering
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