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eyoungren

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Aug 31, 2011
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Per the title…

2023 13" M2 MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.1. Connection is via a VPN using AFP. For background, I was using SMB but the NAS at work had all four hard drives fail in November and it took IT a month to fix. They updated the VPN and now SMB isn't stable when copying to/from Finder, moving files from Finder, etc.

My problem is that inside apps (such as Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, etc) when I go to save, save as or open, almost any app I am in wants to update files and folders and fetch icon previews over the network. It can take a few moments before I can actually save or open a file while all this updating/fetching is going on.

I was able to disable it on my side with SMB, but I can't seem to find anything for AFP.

To clarify (hopefully), I am not talking about icon or file previews in Finder. All that stuff is already disabled. I just can't seem to disable it within Open/Save dialogue boxes.

Is this possible or am I stuck with it?

PS. I do not administer the NAS at work, so any changes have to be client side (my Mac).
 
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