Less than a week ago, I bought a new Macbook Pro 13" Retina. My first foray into the world of Macs.
When I open folders from my NAS (WD MyBook World Edition II) in Finder, they appear empty and take several minutes to update and show any of the files. It does the same when opening any sub folders. So as you can imagine it can take a long time to even see the file I want to open, or get to the location which I want to save a file! It is particularly slow on (but not limited to) folders with lots of files (i.e. a folder of about 1000 photos).
I have it connected as smb://mybookworld. I called Western Digital and they said to connect it using afp and use the IP address of the unit but it wouldn't connect at all that way. I have also updated the firmware on the NAS as well as run all OSX updates.
The same folders all update within seconds or faster when accessed from my existing devices such as my Win7 PC, WinXP laptop and PlayStation 3 (both over ethernet cable and wifi).
Does anyone know of a solution to get the Mac to populate the contents of folders on the 'My Book World Edition II' faster?
Feel free to direct me to an existing thread for this problem if it already exists (I couldn't find one on here that was).
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
When I open folders from my NAS (WD MyBook World Edition II) in Finder, they appear empty and take several minutes to update and show any of the files. It does the same when opening any sub folders. So as you can imagine it can take a long time to even see the file I want to open, or get to the location which I want to save a file! It is particularly slow on (but not limited to) folders with lots of files (i.e. a folder of about 1000 photos).
I have it connected as smb://mybookworld. I called Western Digital and they said to connect it using afp and use the IP address of the unit but it wouldn't connect at all that way. I have also updated the firmware on the NAS as well as run all OSX updates.
The same folders all update within seconds or faster when accessed from my existing devices such as my Win7 PC, WinXP laptop and PlayStation 3 (both over ethernet cable and wifi).
Does anyone know of a solution to get the Mac to populate the contents of folders on the 'My Book World Edition II' faster?
Feel free to direct me to an existing thread for this problem if it already exists (I couldn't find one on here that was).
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!