iDisk: sometimes I forget and I try to actually use the darn thing

[$tevie]

Jeepers, it's been "closing" a 5.3 meg file for like a half an hour now. No wonder I don't use iDisk more often. I had a brain freeze and thought it would be convenient to stick some files from work on there to use at home. Hah.

[ka jowct]

It's been useful to me for stuff like that, but large files do seem to transfer slowly.

[davester]

I use it for files that are too big to email and haven't had problems. Could it be because I live so close to the mothership?...or because we have huge bandwidth here at work?

[$tevie]

I don't know. It supposedly copies a file quickly enough, but then it says it is "Closing file" for ages and ages and ages. Seriously, about a half an hour. And what's terrible is that since it is no longer copying, there is no progress bar or any indication of how much longer you might be waiting for it.

It's been so long since I bothered trying to use the iDisk that I don't remember if I have this problem at home as well.

[$tevie]

I had to give up on the 2nd folder. It's been 40 minutes and I want to go home. Phooey.

[Bernie]

True, there is nothing industrial strength about it. I bogged it down one night emptying the trash. Just reading your subject line was the best laugh of my day.

[chas_m]

When it says it is "closing" the file, that means it is actually UPLOADING the file. The speed is heavily dependent on your UPLOAD bandwidth, which for almost all of us is a TINY fraction of our download bandwidth.

That said, Apple could improve this to some degree if they'd bother.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I've read that Transit's implementation of WebDAV runs circles around Apple's iDisk -- might want to give it a try.

[roshi]

I have totally given up on iDisk - it is evil on my machines. There may be something in my network, in my otherwise extremely fast cable modem, that does not work. But iDisk, on my G5 2.3 ghz dual machine with 4 gigs of RAM, and on three other machines at my house, causes interminable beach balls whenever you save a file. The computer just hangs there, ball spinning, for 5 to 15 seconds.

It took months for me to realize that it was iDisk causing the problem - it never occurred to me that a built-in Apple function would stall the OS, ruin the user experience, and occasionally crash the otherwise totally stable machine. In fact, iDisk is the ONLY thing that caused panics in my machines.

I turned it off, and occasionally have to drive a stake through its heart again - it turns itself on and starts ruining my machine.

Most people must use iDisk with no problems, otherwise there would be screaming across the country. I don't CARE if the uploads are slow - what I care about is that the functioning of iDisk stalls everything on my machines - even, stunningly, a new dual core G5 with a lot of RAM. 3513 kbps cable connection.

[davemchine]

I have been using Path Finder for my idisk access as well as other network access. The advantage is that when you are doing file transfers it doesn't make the finder run slow or crash or fail or whatever happens when you actually try to use the finder to do some work.

Dave