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by mike.peck

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I have an NT server being accessed over VPN (DSL and Frac T1) by 4 small (4-6 PCs) regional offices. On most VPN activities speed is acceptible. One area is not. I have a drive 650 folders in the root and a total of 16,000 folders and 22,000 fileswithin. Total size is 8.6 GB, mostly Word, Excel and CAD files. This drive is very slow to load over the VPN. I don't have the option of eliminating files and folders. What I could do would be to set up three folders in the root called a-e, f-n and o-z and then put the 650 folders presently in the root alphabetically into the appropriate folder. Do you think this might speed up access over the VPN, 3 folders in the root instead of 650.
Thanks,
Mike

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by curlergirl

Definitely breaking down the number of folders at the root level would help. You might even want to break it down further (i.e., within a-e, have a separate folder for a, b, c, d, and e, and so forth). I'm sure you want to avoid making the users drill down through too many folder layers, but when you get more than 200 or so files or folders within one folder, browsing gets pretty slow.

Also, if your users are browsing through Network Neighborhood rather than using a mapped drive to access the shared folder, this might be slow, too. Using a mapped drive letter is usually faster over a slow link.

Hope this helps!

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