Placing Images is slow

[Krisztina]

Just so I understand you correctly, when you refer to Nav Services  
dialog, you are referring to the Place Graphic window?
We are experimenting with it yesterday, and it seems that once the  
icons have all been drawn, the next time you open the same folder,  
it's a bit faster.  It must be saving  the icons in a cache  
somewhere.  Maybe expanding all the folders that the art is in, and  
waiting a couple of minutes for all the icons to draw, then closing  
the folders is the workaround.  I wonder how long the icons are saved  
in the cache... when C7 quits, the OS quits, or when the page is  
closed.   Are you aware of any speed improvements in the newest  
version (10.4) of Apple OX Server software from 10.2?  Maybe we need  
to upgrade the software?  Our art and data files all reside on an  
Xserve, running 10.2.  Maybe seeing if they make faster hard drives  
for it?

We are in the beginning stages of switching  from C4 and OS9 to C7  
and OS10.4.  For the most part, it's been great.  However, placing  
art files is such a big part of our layouts (we design supermarket  
circulars here), that one of the artists  switched back to C4 and OS9  
because she couldn't get her work done.  Thanks for your input.

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On Apr 2, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Steve Mills wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2007, at 17:03:41, Krisztina wrote:
>
>> C7, OSX.  Placing images is very slow.  What I mean by this is the  
>> computer takes a long time to show all the items in the folder  
>> that has the art in it before the artist can select the desired item.
>> I assume this is a result of the Navigation services of OSX.  The  
>> OS wants to draw all those pretty icons to the left of the  
>> images.  In the Finder window (when you are in column view), there  
>> is a gear.  (The gear drop down: Show View Options.)  You can turn  
>> off "show icons" and "show preview column".  How can C7 do the  
>> same in the Place Graphic window? This would be a feature that  
>> increase productivity more than any other that I could think of.   
>> Thanks.
>
> I know of no way to turn off the icons in Nav Services. When ever I  
> need to look through a list of files that are on a server, I do it  
> via Finder instead of an app's open/import dialog, which seems to  
> get the icons a bit faster in some cases. Also, type-to is *much*  
> faster in Finder than in a Nav Services dlog.
>
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