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Deletion of Aperture and iTunes libraries...
I have my Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes libraries on my Pro Pioneer. It works fine, and it is relatively fast even when accessing these from my MacBook Pro via WiFi:) However, I work (add and modify pictures) on libraries stored on my SSD in my Mac Pro, and regularly I copy these updated libraries to my NAS.
When I do this, I have sometimes just copy/pasted, and that ends up taking forever - we're taking hours here, and the libraries are "only" 3, 20, 60, and 70GB. I only work with referenced files, but the Aperture libraries can get kind of big...
Even if I choose to delete the libraries on the NAS first and then copy/paste the new ones, the deletion of the libraries takes forever. How come? Deleting a bunch of files (and that's pretty much what these libraries are) shouldn't take hours, should it?
When I do this, I have sometimes just copy/pasted, and that ends up taking forever - we're taking hours here, and the libraries are "only" 3, 20, 60, and 70GB. I only work with referenced files, but the Aperture libraries can get kind of big...
Even if I choose to delete the libraries on the NAS first and then copy/paste the new ones, the deletion of the libraries takes forever. How come? Deleting a bunch of files (and that's pretty much what these libraries are) shouldn't take hours, should it?
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- Each of the deletion commands is issued across your network. You may find some protocols are more efficient at this than others. Is doing it over CIFS/SMB any quicker.
It would be much faster to e.g. SSH into your NAS and remove the libraries using rm.
You may find performance using iSCSI is much quicker but initiator's are not free for Mac and you need to connect to a target from just one machine at a time. - It ended up taking about 12 hours, and it was really just the 60 and the 70GB libraries that took time. There has got to be a better way than deleting these like this??? I have a "PC free" environment, and use AFP for everything. I can try with SMB next time, and I don't think I am ready to try SSH...
How would it work if I simply blew away the entire Share? Would that happen instantly, or would it follow the normal deletion process? - Deleting the entire share would be an option. It would delete the files locally on the NAS so should be about as quick as using SSH.
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