Salamander crashes in folders with large number of files

tosiabunio · Post by **tosiabunio** » 23 May 2007, 18:34

The most recent version seems to be prone to crashes when displaying or working on contents of folder with large number of files. I have folders with almost 20,000 (yes that's 20k) files in them and many operations like selecting some of those files for copying crashes the Salamander. Sometimes even the file listing crashes the program.

What can I do to help in diagnosing the problem?

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 23 May 2007, 18:41

Do you have the Tortoise SVN/CVS installed?

Is some error message displayed?

tosiabunio · Post by **tosiabunio** » 23 May 2007, 19:15

Yes, I have TortoiseSVN installed. I believe I had problems with folders under version control and with clean folders as well.

No error message. Just standard Windows message box informing me that Salamander performed illegal operation.

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 23 May 2007, 19:18

It will be probably the same problem like http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=2156

Do you use the latest version of TortoiseSVN? Could you install the the latest nightly build? Please walk through the mentioned thread and help us to locate this problem.

therube · Post by **therube** » 24 May 2007, 22:23

(Are you saying 20k files in a single folder? If so, I have to ask, what kind of files might they be? Highly inefficient wouldn't it be?)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25 May 2007, 09:23

These are audio files - dialogue lines for a large game. Yes it's a bit inefficient but the files are collected there before being distributed into specfic folders (max 5000 files in the folder). The problem is that sometimes I have to use Salamander to process so many files in a folder and I would prefer not to have any crashes.

I installed nightly build of Tortoise SVN and so far no crashes.

tosiabunio · Post by **tosiabunio** » 30 May 2007, 19:45

The nightly build of TortoiseSVN helped a bit, but the Salamander is still crashing sometimes. I tried to do a comparison of two folders, each containing about 19k files. The comparison ended, different files were highlighted (a lot of them) and then the Salamander crashed.

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 30 May 2007, 22:45

Please look at http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=2049#9181 how can you help us track down this problem and let us know...

tosiabunio · Post by **tosiabunio** » 31 May 2007, 16:46

I forgot to mention that the last crashes reported were on the folders not being under SVN control. Just two plain folders with loads of files in them.

Wouldn't it be helpful to get a special build of Salmander which doesn't display TortoiseSVN icons? I've been living without the icons for last few years and I can still live without them now. Obviously they are nice addition, but at this moment the last release candidate worked better for me.

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 31 May 2007, 18:27

tosiabunio wrote:I forgot to mention that the last crashes reported were on the folders not being under SVN control. Just two plain folders with loads of files in them.

Yes, this is how shell extensions work. The shell extension DLL is called for each file, not only for SVN repository. Please look at: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=2096 and MSDN Creating Shell Extension Handlers article.

tosiabunio wrote:Wouldn't it be helpful to get a special build of Salmander which doesn't display TortoiseSVN icons? I've been living without the icons for last few years and I can still live without them now. Obviously they are nice addition, but at this moment the last release candidate worked better for me.

We are considering some shell extension black list, but for now you should really help us track down this problem. Please read my previous post and provide us more information. You are using TortoiseSVN free of charge, so it would be nice to help with this open source project (the problem is probably on TortoiseSVN side). I think, we don't ask so much, only a few dumps, we are not able to get because we cannot reproduce these crashes.

Btw, what about this problem and Windows Explorer? Are you using it?

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 29 Jun 2007, 08:19

Problem solution: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?p=9882#9882