Hi there!
I'm using Directory Opus 9.5.4.0.3806.x64 on Windows 7 x64.
I've got a couple of Network Drives mounted on my Machine. When I browse them it's painfully slow. This does not happen when I use the explorer.
When I enable the use of Generic Icons ( so that i can't see any SVN overlay icons) it seems to be faster. Also, if i have my Opus open and browsed a little through the folders it gets a little better. But if i close it and open it again its slow and I have to wait for the folders to appear.
I'm not sure about it, but it could be related to TurtoiseSVN. But, as I said, no probs with explorer...
Any idea?
Best regards
Do the TortoiseSVN icon overlays appear in Explorer?
Which display mode are you using in Opus? If it's tiles or thumbnails, try switching to details.
If you're using Details or Power mode, which columns do you have displayed? Do you have any of TortoiseSVN's columns (which don't work in Explorer anymore and thus could be a difference)? Or do you have any columns like Description or Image Width/Height or similar which cause Opus to open each file?
Also, if you have turned on Sort shortcuts to folders like folders in Preferences (use the filter at the bottom of the Prefs window to quickly find the option) and you then go to a network folder with a lot of shortcut files, it can slow things down.
Hello there!
Thanks for your reply. Yes, the Overlay Icons appear (if 'use generic icons' is turned off).
I'm using the Details Display View, and the columns are Name, Size, Type, Last Modification and Attributes. Nothing special.
The calculation of the Folder Size is turned off on Network Shares/ Drives.
When i open a new Opus window, all the folders of the last visited place appear but very often the "folder structure" is not populated ( only Desktop and File Collection Icon is displayed) After about 30 - 45 secs the real "folder structure" shows up.
If its "dual horizontal" the upper "folder structure" appears complete, the lower one has the problem described above.
I've to mention again, if the Opus Window is open for a while, I can browse my Network Drive in an "blazing fast" speed 
Best regards
Do the TortoiseSVN icon overlays appear in Explorer?
Oh, they don't appear for about 40secs...
The folders content is displayed immediately, but the icon for the svn folder is at first the same as all others.
After ~40 sec. the icon changes to the overlay icon...
Strange... any idea?
I guess Tortoise is taking a long time to calculate the status of each item on the network drive. Not sure how to improve that.
AFAIK it's not recommended to use Subversion on network drives because of slowness like this. Why not create a local checkout of the repository?
Good morning!
Hm. I don't store Documents / Pics / Codes / ..."Own Documents" on my local machine. (i use a raid0 for performance)
Everything is stored on my Server where I have a better redundancy of hd's and in addition, everything is stored to a tape library.
I read the Manual of Turtoise, and I think I found what you are talking about.
..."Accessing a Repository on a Network Share"...
"...In fact we would strongly discourage it, and do not support such use...."
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-repository.html
Didn't read that before... so, I'll give it a try.
Thank you for your help.
best regards
That TSVN page is talking about having the repository itself (rather than a checkout of it) on a network share and accessing the files via SVN's file:// protocol (rather than using a proper Subversion server), which is a slightly different topic. (The advice still makes sense, just for different reasons.)
Seems strange to care too much about redundancy/backups of a local Subversion checkout/work-area when the Subversion server itself is a backup of everything. Redundancy and backups on the server make a lot of sense but the work-area is disposable. (Except for recent work that hasn't been checked-in yet, but that's an acceptable risk for the massive performance improvement you get from having local copies of the files you're working on.)
Hi there,
i moved my Repository to a local Folder, but this actually didn't solve anything.
But now i uninstalled TurtoiseSVN and everything is working again like it should.
I open my Opus and everything is diplayed really fast. Now it's like browsing a local hd. Click-> done 
Thanks for your help.
Best regards, have a nice day
P.s.:
I don't use SVN a lot, actually it's only one Folder, and this one was located per default under My Documents, which resides on my Server.
I don't save any important Data on my Desktop PC, only Programs and a few Games If my Desktop fails, and I don't care about.
The cause for my double redundancy (on my Server) is that I need to be aware of software errors and hardware malfunction. Just a week ago Visual Studio went up in smoke and killed a Project, and I was very angry about me not using SVN. ( the files were still there, but unusable ) I don't want to make copies manually, so i set up a SVN Server in a VM.
It's almost not noticable if I work with files located on my Server.
Fast response time, and good Bandwith. It's no Problem to get smthg. about 90MB/s transfer rate.
FWIW, I have used TortoiseSVN a lot with Opus (always with the checkout done to a local disk) and it's not normal for it to cause slowdowns like that.
There must be something in the TortoiseSVN setup, the repository setup, or the way the checkout was done that was causing the delay (e.g. something causing it to access the network when it shouldn't have to, or maybe even try to access a server that cannot be found anymore, then timeout).
I think I have found the cause for my problems.
During my first Installation of TurtoiseSVN the Overlay Icons weren't displayed so i tested a couple of Options for the Icon Overlays.
Under "Drive Types" "Removable drives" and "Unknown drives" was selected, after deselecting those two Options everything works fine. And it even doens't matter where the Checkout Folder is located. Works perfectly now
I'm happy.
Thanks for your help!!!
Greetings from Germany