Moving images to mapped NAS drive causes 'Applying wallpaper settings to take very long time.

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When I had my images local, it was nothing to apply the changes to the wallpaper settings. Now that I have moved my images to a NAS box, and mapped the drive (public folders on the NAS, so no login creds needed) it took over 15 minutes for it to finally apply the settings. I was wondering if there was any way of speeding that up?

Mar 11, 2021 • #1

Hi James,

Could you send me over a debug log? Here are the steps:

On the DisplayFusion Settings > Troubleshooting tab, change the Logging drop-down to "L1: Log Minimal" and click Apply
Reproduce the issue and note the time so we'll know where to check in the log file
Click the "Export Info to File" button on the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Reply with the file attached
Disable debug logging after sending the log

Thanks!

Mar 12, 2021 • #2

Hi Owen, sorry I have not responded sooner, I was called away out of town on business. Attached is the log file export. Times to look at was 08:20 for the Apply click, and 08:25 for the Ok click. so it took about 5 minutes for each to complete. This has only happened since moving the images to a NAS box, and mapping the public folder to a drive letter.

I have found a slight workaround, by creating a local folder, and creating directory symlinks (symlinkd) to certain folders on the network share, it does speed up the time.

• Attachment [protected]: DisplayFusionDebugInfo.zip [112,611 bytes]

Mar 16, 2021 • #3

Hi James,

Are there a lot of sub-folders in the folder you've selected for the wallpaper? If so, I think that may be what's slowing it down. If the NAS drives are slower spinning disks that would contribute, and traversing folders over the network will be much slower than on a local drive as well.

Thanks!

Mar 17, 2021 • #4

yeah, that was what I was afraid of. Thanks for the time to check it out for me. And yes there are lots of files/directories being transversed there. I'll move the files back to a local disk after I finish cleaning the drives off. This discussion can be closed.