Browsing / Navigating files on USB-drive unusable slow and laggy
I'm getting more and more trouble navigating and selecting folders/files on my Prusa XL usb-drive.
I have multiple project folders on the USB drive. And navigating the USB-drive has become unbearable problematic.
The selecting/scrolling often freezes for 5 seconds, but it does seem to still record and que part of your input. Causing it to execute the queued inputs after an un-freez, and thus directly freezing it back up. As user I often have to wait 10 seconds before scrolling an other 5 ticks or so... to at least not scroll to bottom or top of the list.
Then selecting... You often select something and then press enter... only to see it unfreeze, quickly complete queued selection steps, causing it to select something different then you wanted to and then press enter on the wrong selection!!!
This is so infuriating XD
The struggle to just browse and select the right folder/files.. And if you fail, ya can do it all over again!
Anyone found a solution to this, or is there a bug report that I can vote on?
Creative Engineer and 3D printing @ AcEcraft.eu
Repeated replacement of files on a fairly full drives leads to fragmentation, USB management systems compound this with use-balancing the sectors to extend working life. It's always best to keep USB's with frequently changed content below half full. If you want to build up a stock of standard parts in one USB copy the files elsewhere, low level reformat the drive and copy them back when they will be unfragmented.
Cheerio,
RE: Browsing / Navigating files on USB-drive unusable slow and laggy
I only use 1,45GB of the 29.2GB available.
Its the original stick you get with Prusa XL.
Windows does not seem to let me run de-fragment on the stick either...
Creative Engineer and 3D printing @ AcEcraft.eu
USBs have simple file management systems so the reformat and reload method is often useful - if you have ever had large files in the way fragmentation may have started and despite deleting the offender(s) once started fragmetation tends to compound.
Conventional defrag doesn't work because the USB manager keeps track of rewrites and moves segments to avoid excessive wear in any one place.
Cheerio,
RE:
Tested your theorie by copying all files to my pc.
Then did a full (not quick) format of the USB-stick.
And copied the files back to the fresh formatted USB-stick.
Tested it, and its still very very slow in the Prusa XL. Scrolling through the folder list is still very difficult with a lot of waiting and overshoots.
Creative Engineer and 3D printing @ AcEcraft.eu