Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: AlFire <spamgrinder.trylater@ggmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700
> 
> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It
> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes
> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the
> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely:
> 
> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c

Which version of Emacs is that?

Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use
TAB-completion somewhere along the way?  If the latter, please tell
_exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help
you gathering this info).