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Unusual slow refresh time issue

Krispy Kritter

Krispy Kritter

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I may ramble a bit here, but just trying to get everything included that could be helpful for a solution.

I have a drive that is always used as my download location. I've had this setup and in use for years now, with no issues. At any given time, the drive could be near empty or have several hundred files sitting on it.

After my recent upgrade to Win11, I noticed when opening this drive in File Explorer, it would take awhile for it to refresh properly. Like it would populate some files, but not all, and in the upper left corner I would see a spinning wheel notating that it was still reading/refreshing. This could take a few seconds or quite a bit longer. After it was refreshed it would be fine, unless you were making changes to any files (ie: renaming a file, extracting RAR files, etc.) and then the refresh would start over.

I thought maybe I just had an issue with the 1TB SSD which was being used, so that was replaced with a 2TB nvme drive. The problem remains.

I also downloaded and installed all of the latest drivers for my motherboard. The problem remains.

No other drives are exhibiting this behavior, including a spinner which has over 20k files.

Any thoughts on a solution or other troubleshooting steps?
 
I've had issues with windows 11 on my backup PC where it can take awhile to open file explorer. The culprit was blocking too much microsoft tracking shit. Unblocked it, and it will open up quickly.
 
I know that I had Win10 tweaked to disable a lot of the "helpful" features and tracking. But aside from some basic configuration and user preference type stuff, I don't recall doing much of anything with Win11.
 
Working with some files on this drive the other day, and the slowness seems to be related to the number of files in the folder. Up until I reach the "file limit", it's as fast as you would expect. Add more files, and suddenly it takes longer to refresh. Add more, and it gets even slower.
 
LOL

The problem is that Ive not seen this before. It's not that great a number of files causing the issue. I'm gonna guess 3000 or less.

My music folder on a different drive (an SSD as opposed to an NVME drive) has about 16k files and does not have this issue.

I have another drive, a 16TB spinner, with 22k files and it doesnt have the issue.

So yes, while I now know how to prevent it, it's not an actual solution to whatever problem is causing it.
 
Because of another issue that occurred last week with a Windows update, I was forced to perform a Windows update (kept my files and programs). During that process, the install was stopped until I resolved a compliance issue. The compliance issue was that one of my nvme drives required a firmware update to fix a known Windows bug. Ironically, the bug was not a problem that I was experiencing, but the firmware update on the drive (yes, the drive used for downloads noted above) has resolved my slowness issues.
 
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