soybean:
The HDD is brand new, the archiving was the first operation done with it.
It's a 500GB USB HDD, the current utilization is about 30GB.
Each archived file folder (out of the 80.000) contains one or more PDF or DOC files with about 375kB in average.
The indexing is switched on at the moment, because of the promised "faster search" results.
Can the indexing be switched of just like that or will it affect the data on the HDD ?
(e.g. re-format or such)
I use the USB HDD with several PCs and Laptops running AV programs, e.g. AVIRA on the PC, but "OfficeScan" on the Laptop.
They are all slow when accessing the archive folder containing the 80.000 sub-directories, so I assume it's not a problem of the AV program.
OS is WinXP Home on PC and WinXP Prof. on Laptop.