From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T23:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow Find.find - real problem

On 04.09.2010 13:24, Stuart Clarke wrote:

> I have a real head ache and would really appreciate any advice.
>
> I have a folder with 100,000's of files within it and I need to run a
> rename process across these.

> My issue is this is very very slow and is taking about an hour to do 10
> file renames. Is there any way I can speed this up?

Brian gave excellent advice already.  I'd just want to point out that 
keeping hundred thousands of files in a single directory (do you?) is 
generally slow on most file systems.  If possible distributing them 
across several directories generally helps speed up things.

Kind regards

	robert

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