I have been facing this problem with my remote drive which has the contents encrypted using ‘Crypt’.
Problem: I have a folder named ‘Softwares’ where I have stored various softwares. These softwares are improtant to me which I have been using for last 10-15 years. Whenever I try to mount this encrypted remote, it gets mounted immediately, without any issues. However, when I open the folders, the PC becomes way too sluggish. The top left corner of opened window starts showing circular motion, which depicts ‘busy’ status of Operating system. It takes anywhere from 1 min to 10 mins depending on the type of folder opened to behave normal. For the period of sluggishness, while I can work in any other folder or browse but the folder which has been opened becomes almost unresponsive.
Usage Environment :
My OS is Win 11 Home
PC is Lenovo LOX (but the problem is being faced in other PCs as well).
Cloud Service Provider : Koofr.
Network speed is 100 Mbps broadband.
The folder structure of my encrypted remote is 2 or anywhere upto 5 levels deeper as I have few more folders within this ‘Softwares’ folder. This keeps my contents more organised.
Total files are around 15,808 as on date, with most of them being the installers and associated files. Folder count is 2346 and the contents of this remote are 106 GB in Size. These figures keep changing but the change is not frequent as the usage is home use and only I update/ download/ upload these files. This activity takes once in 2-3 days for few odd (3-4 files) files.
Other Indicators. After mounting this remote and on opening folders, I have observed few unique things:
- My network activity increases with downloads being undertaken by rclone.exe. This download continues for the entire duration of sluggishness. This duration could be 1 min or 10 mins depending upon the size of folder or its contents.
- When opened, the sub-folders are displayed without any icons of files inside them. Similarly, the files within the sub-folder are displayed with the default icon of unidentified files. As time progresses, folders start showing the icons of their contents and icons of files start showing (the OEM provided icons for them). By the time sluggishness is over, all files are displayed with their icons correctly.
- This problem has been faced not just with RcloneView but also when I mount the encrypted drive with command line through powershell.
- I have other remotes which are encrypted using crypt but they don’t display such behaviour. These remotes are with Koofr as well as pCloud. This particular troublesome remote is dedicated to all kind of softwares, is with Koofr, and displays this problematic behaviour.
Any kind of input or help would be highly appreciated.