Folders on Top Performance

TotalFinder
1

Folders on top adds a very noticeable lag every time you access a folder (500 ms or so on a top of the line mbpro). I experience this in column view. Is there any way to optimize this?

2

Can you download and test this version?
http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-1.7.14.dmg

I confirm I have introduced some performance degradation in 1.7.11 to fix sorting issues.

3

First! Oh man…

4

Thanks for the quick reply. I’m afraid the improvement is marginal with this build. There’s still a pretty noticeable delay. Same goes for column width, by the way.

5

:frowning:

And http://downloads.binaryage.com/TotalFinder-1.7.10.dmg is slow as well for you? That was the last version prior my attempts to fix the sorting and introduced some display delays.

6

1.7.10 is quite fast, almost no delay, except a bit of a white flash between views (getting rid of that would be great too!).

screencap here:
CloudApp

7

Thanks for the testing. I will probably introduce a switch. For people who want 1.7.10 speed and can live with potential folders-on-top sorting issues. I cannot deliver both at this point :disappointed:

8

adding the flashing frame/frame for good measure: http://cl.ly/090e0W0o0L0l

9

I’m not sure I see the flashing frame. I see the right most column appear then resize. Is that what you’re referring to?

10

frame 1
previous folder with content

frame 2
new folder selected, column without content (white flash)

frame 3
new folder selected, with content and large column size

frame 4
new folder selected, with content and resized column

Ideally, the transition should go from frame 1 to frame 4 directly. At high speed, frame 3 makes it look like the folder contents are “flashing” because it transitions to white before updating.