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Sluggish AFP access, Finder hangs: Permissions issues?
I recently did a factory reset of my 314. As part of that process, I had to backup all my data to a spare NTFS-formatted drive and then transfer it back to the NAS. Since restoring, I've experien...
Perhaps just reset the permissions on the share, and then change the network permissions back so admin is read/write and everyone else is read-only.
That didn't work, unfortunately.
It's still so unbelievably sluggish. Even Time Machine seems to be taking ages to back up, saying that it's going to take 7 hours to back up 400MB of files.
Maybe I need to do some system maintenance? What order is recommended: Defrag, Scrub and then Balance?
How full is your volume? Can you send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
The volume is only about 55% full. Will send you my logs asap.
Just found another post of yours, mdgm-ntgr, that offers recommended maintenance routines and answers my question above. Thanks!
So do you still have performance issues?
If so, you could try turning off some apps, disabling disk spin-down etc. to try to isolate if any of those are related to the problem.
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