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If I use explorer with TortoiseSVN overlay icons on, its lightning fast. If I turn of the 'Show overlay icons' its lightning fast. It takes about a minute for 25 files on the first page. What TC does is, file by file, show the icon, hang a second, show the name/details. Now I'm going in a directory with 3000 files. I've tortoiseSVN installed (which is know for slowing things down). I'm using ExpanDrive to mount a sftp directory locally. I've the same problem, here my situation. However, I found that NetDrive is a bit slow sometimes.Ok, lets push this thing up again. If you use it together with a VPN solution, for example with Poptop, it might be an option. I can't recommend using FTP since the communication is not encrypted.

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However, you won't have an encrypted communication and you have to first set up Samba on every Linux server.Īnother option is to use the free tool NetDrive. Of course, there are other ways to map a network drive to a folder on a Linux host. I'll probably purchase WebDrive since it is faster with low bandwidth connections. I always used WinSCP to edit files on a Linux box, but working with SftpDrive and WebDrive is much more convenient for me. SftpDrive costs $39 and WebDrive is $54.95. I suggest taking a look at it if the problem discussed here isn't an issue for you. WebDrive has a couple of other features that I don't need for my work, but which might be of interest to you. Hence, I can't recommend WebDrive if you want to access large database files on your Linux server. Unfortunately, I didn't find a way to disable caching completely. WebDrive offers several settings to configure the caching feature. However, with 3 Mbps, Outlook was a bit sluggish. I didn't realize any delays with a 100 Mbps connection. Therefore, I was able to work almost immediately with the database since Outlook doesn't have to load the complete. SftpDrive doesn't have this caching feature. Even if you have a very fast connection, you will have to wait a while before you can start working. However, if you work with large files, then this feature might cause problems. WebDrive is definitely the better choice, especially if you want to open files with applications that create temporary files like Word. This feature is useful if you have a slow network connection to your server. If the network connection isn't available, you can still access the files from the cache.

WebDrive automatically copies the files you edit to a local cache. I only tested SFTP since it is the one most often used by system administrators.Īnother interesting feature of WebDrive is its caching function. It not only supports SFTP, but also FTP, WebDAV, FrontPage, and GroupDrive. WebDrive certainly is the more sophisticated tool.

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If you move files rather than copy them, this problem doesn't exist at all, because SftpDrive and WebDrive won't download them then.

This isn't a big deal if you have a high-speed connection to your server or if you only work with small text files. Saving the file will copy the changes to the Linux machine and you can drag and drop files from your desktop to the Linux folder.Ī problem with both tools is that if you copy a file from a server folder to another, it will be downloaded to your local machine first and then uploaded again. You can access the Linux files the same way as in Windows, i.e., a double click will open its associated application.

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