Terrible performance with folders with 5000+ files?

[xochi]

Originally Posted by dnanian

xochi --

I have a mail folder with *well* over that number of messages (multiple folders with over 30K messages), and don't have this particular issue there... I smart update it daily. I think there's likely something else going on with your particular situation, which is why I suggested it might be something in the OS in your folder.

Dave -- if you have the time, please try renaming several of these folders (containing, say 50000 files) then doing another Smart Update. Do you see a drastic slowdown in performance? If not then it may very well be some issue on my end.