Slow to sort a folders contents by date.

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I have a movies folder comprising of approximately 230 items, total size 900GB.

If I try to sort this by date it takes a fairly long time.

Or sometimes just opening the folder will take a long time to display contents.

Pre-Windows 10 update (I was on Windows 7) it was fairly quick.

What do?


Thanks :)
 
I've found explorer performance in 10 is down a fair bit on 7 let alone 8 when working with lots of stuff especially don't think its a specific fault - maybe some aspect of it being the OS being a work in progress.
 
If it's a recent install it could be that indexing isn't running or isn't complete?

On 7 it warned you with a bar at the top of Explorer. No idea if 10 does the same?
 
You get a green bar across the address bit like 7/8 - but so far in my use it only pops up once explorer has "caught up" then just goes across really quickly so doesn't seem to mirror indexing slowdowns.
 
Indexing on 7 also had a yellow bar that popped up with a message you could dismiss that warned that it would be slow as indexing hadn't finished.
 
7 also had a default setting not to bother to check when file were most recently modified, and not to bother changing modification dates, this was to speed matters, on indexing, and file generation, might be some after effect of them turning it back on.
 
Is this a local folder? I just sorted a 687 item, 1TB+ network share by date and it did it instantly.

Also just did a search that returned over 400 files totaling over 1TB and sorting that by date took a couple of seconds.
 
It's a 3 TB local physical drive. Files are listed by "details" view, so no thumbnails or previews.

Indexing is enabled on that drive afaik and it's not set to power off after X minutes either.
 
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