Moving files within junctions

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Here is my setup:

C: is physical drive 1
C:\ISOs is Physical Drive 2 mounted as a subfolder
C:\ISOs\Folder 1 is a Normal folder
C:\ISOs\Folder 2 is a Normal folder

If I move a large file from one of these normal folders into the other, Opus takes an age to move the file (as if I were moving the file from one physical drive to another). If I use Windows Explorer, it knows that both folders reside on the same physical disk and the operation is instantaneous.

If I dismount the junction and use the drive mapped to a drive letter, Opus moves the file instantly as you would expect.

Can anyone help?

2

Which version of Opus? There were fixes for this sort of thing in 9.1.1.4 and 9.1.1.6.

3

I'm using 9.1.1.7. I never actually noticed the problem before this version so it might have just crept into the latest build.

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[quote="MrOctopusFace"]Here is my setup:

C: is physical drive 1
C:\ISOs is Physical Drive 2 mounted as a subfolder
C:\ISOs\Folder 1 is a Normal folder
C:\ISOs\Folder 2 is a Normal folder

If I move a large file from one of these normal folders into the other, Opus takes an age to move the file (as if I were moving the file from one physical drive to another). If I use Windows Explorer, it knows that both folders reside on the same physical disk and the operation is instantaneous.

If I dismount the junction and use the drive mapped to a drive letter, Opus moves the file instantly as you would expect.

Can anyone help?[/quote]

How are you making the link? How big is the file?
I don't know if this mirrors what you are doing but
I have 3 drives and I have directories test1 and test2 on drive F:
I do:
mklink /J e:\foo5 f:\

e:\foo5 is now a link (junction) to drive F.
If I copy a 127 MB file from e:\foo5\test1 to e:\foo5\test2, it takes about 1 second in D.O. and a little longer in Explorer, maybe a half a second.
If I move the file, it is instant in both cases....

Maybe I misunderstand what you are doing.

--
Lou
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

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I make the link using Computer Management, right-clicking the drive and choosing Change Drive Letter and Paths.

As Leo hinted, there does seem to be a fix in previous versions as I rolled back to v9.1.1.5 and it works fine on there.

The files are all 4GB files so the difference is very noticeable.

6

Thanks for checking it in 9.1.1.5. Since it worked there but changed in 9.1.1.7 I'd say you've found something. I've reported this to GPSoftware for you.

7

Much appreciated. Thank you.