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ATI 2019 .tib files opening very slow on Windows 10

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I've seen this issue discussed on previous versions of ATI. I haven't had any versions except 2019 on my new machine. Not sure what's at play here. The .tib file I'm trying to browse via explorer is over 200gb. It's on an external drive via a  USB3.0 connection. Any solutions ? Also I add that the explorer windows themselves when trying to browse the contents of the .tib file cannot be moved around on the screen until the action of browsing a folder is completed.

Thanks much

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The *.tib is large which would slow down things. I suspect the speed depends on the following variables:

  • the size of the backup
  • the number of incremental backups (in the latest set)
  • the speed of the drive on which the *.tib is located; with external devices the USB port and the speed of the device will both play a role
  • the amount of RAM - the more the better
  • the speed of the CPU.

Have you tried mounting the *.tib rather than opening it. It may be more responsive if you do so.

Ian

Agree with all of Ian's thoughts.  Also, any chance an AV program is scanning or Windows is indexing the .tib once it's being navigated? How much free space is left on the external and how defragmented is it?  What is CPU and memory usage showing in task manager when this is happening?  There are lots of possibilities that could lead to degraded performance

My biggest local backup is about 120GB and located on an internal SATA3 WD Black 3TB drive, but it opens and navigates almost instantly and I have a speedy EVO 970 Plus PCIe NVME for the main OS and 32GB of memory which is barely working on this system.  I suppose if you drill farther and farther down, and/or there are multiple small files, it could be impacted more - for instance in a folder like C:\Windows\System32\etc. 

I've also seen USB drives flake out and just hang when navigating deep folders (any chance you can plug into a back panel USB if it's a desktop?  front USB is usually less capable on desktops than the real panel, but all depends on the motherboard or add-in card).

You may also want to run chkdsk on the external, just to be sure there isn't something deeper, but start with task manager monitoring and potentially different usb port.

I'm sorry to necro a really old thread, but I have a couple of questions. I'm having trouble with hangs whenever I try to open a folder within ATI2019, to the point where each subfolder takes about 10 seconds to navigate through.

 

I'm running the following specs:

- 60GB Backup file size

- 130GB Backup partition on a WD SN850 running at PCI Gen 3 speeds (about 3GB/s)

- Indexing is disabled and no anti-virus products are online to interfere. 

- Intel i7 8086K Overclocked to 5.0GHz all core, 32GB RAM.

 

To my knowledge, there is no bottleneck that should impact the read speed of ATI2019, and I've tested this across multiple installs of Windows 10 Pro (I format the system approximately every 3-6 months) and have near identical performance issues. I'm super appreciative of any suggestions, and would just love to get this sorted out.

 

Thanks in advance! 

Not sure that there is a solution; If I recall correctly I have seen similar performance. My AMD system is of about the same vintage with same amount of RAM; my newer Intel systems are less powerful and only have 16 Gig of RAM. If memory serves me correctly, ATI does not seem to take advantage of muli-threading to the extent one would expect/hope.

While that's a shame, it isn't really unexpected. My goals for listing the specs of the system were just to outline that I'm running ATI2019 on a relatively powerful (for it's time) computer. It feels unnatural to be navigating files with a 10 second load time, and having done some more testing today, complete program hangs for a couple of minutes. 

 

I've tried ATI-2021 in a virtual environment today and had the same performance issues, leading me to believe it may be something to do with my .TIB files specifically. 

I very much doubt that there is anything wrong with the particular *.tib file. I have the impression (rightly or wrongly) that there has been no improvement in navigation speed with the most recent versions/builds.

Ian