Reduce spinning beach ball delays on network drives

Mar 12, '07 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: jehrler

Having finally suffered one too many Spinning Beach Balls of Death, I have switched to using SFTP to move, rename and delete files on remote drives.

Rather than mounting the networked drive to the Finder, I simply use SSH and SFTP functionality that is built into OS X (enable in System Preferences' Sharing tab; check Remote Login) along with an FTP client (Interarchy, Panic, CyberDuck) to deal with remote file management.

Obviously, if you need to open the file from the Network Drive then you are stuck using the Finder, but, at least in my case, the vast majority of the time I am just looking to move, rename and delete files across the Network and SFTP does the trick.

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