Strange Explorer Behaviour

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Banwari

Hello Guys,

I am facing a strange problem for last few days. I have 5 partitions on
my 2 40GB Seagate 5200RPM hard drives. I use Windows XP Professional.
Formerly Linux had occupied 10 GBs, now I formatted it as NTFS
partition. Alto I enabled Compression on this partition.

I have at least 20,000 files in a folder which are of asp, aspx and
image file formats. Everything was working fine till few days back but
now problem is that as soon as I click on that folder(which has
thousands of files), it takes at least 30 seconds to enter that folder.
in between, if I click somewhere else on this window, I see 'Not
Responding' on the title bar of the window.

I tried moving this folder to another drive, its working fine there.
Also If I move this folder into some other folder on the same
partition, then problem stops to occur while clicking this folder but
comes with the folder in which I moved it. I guess the problem lies
within the root folders only.

please suggest what's wrong with what? what's the culprit, the disk,
the OS or what?

thnx n best regards,
 
It may be an idea to make a new folder in another drive (say drive d:).
Then copy the contents of the problem folder into the new folder.

delete the old folder along with the contents.

Reboot your PC and create another folder in place of the problem folder.
copy back the contents from the folder created on the drive d: into this
folder.
I then think it should not be a problem.

hope this helps

KLsN
 
Thnx for Help.

But unfortunately solution doesn't work.

If I move folder to a folder in the same drive, the problem shifts to
the parent folder of this folder. So I guess problem lies within the
root folders of the partition only.

Moreover if I distribute the contents of this folder to 2-3 folders,
the opening time also distributes accordingly say 10 secs each. very
strange!

thnx and best regards
 
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