File access slowdown when working in project on remote disk

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There’s been some discussion of laggy-ness with projects on network drives:

RStudio Desktop slow and laggy when project is on a network drive

I have found that when I open an RStudio proj that's located on my corporate network, RStudio behaves very erratically and laggy. Creating a new file is slow... anything with git is painfully slow. I've monitored CPU and also network traffic and nothing is getting pegged out. There is hardly any network traffic and typical blips of CPU usage. But it's painful on a network drive. Note that my network drive is > 700 miles away but it's typically very usable. I regularly open large files and copy/save across the wire with other applications. I've seen in old RStudio support periodic comments about RStudio being slow on a network connection, but nothing recently. Is this something others see? I…

RStudio Desktop - Networked drive, laggy response

hi Experiencing the same issue. Networked drive, laggy response. Is this fixed? Or is there a work around? Rstudio: 1.1.447 R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)

Knitting the ioslides presentation is painfully slow - network drive

Hi - hope it is okay to append to this existing post. I am running off a network drive at work (the files are version controlled, not sure how). I have done two tests: Created a new project on C: Drive. Knitting the sample ioslides presentation extremely quick. Created a new project on the network drive (where I keep all my work): Knitting the sample ioslides presentation painfully slow. For example, After pressing the Knit button, there is a lag of > 1 minute Once knitting is finished, the Rstudio output window doesn't open for probably > 5 minutes (I am not using a timer). There is also a lag to create a new file. There are no lags when typing. Here is a copy of the output…

I don’t know if this is the same as any of those issues, or if this is something else?

Some system information might be helpful...

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• RStudio diagnostics report: rstd.io/support-diagnostics-report
• Your sessionInfo():
• RStudio crash report: rstd.io/support-crash-report
• RStudio application log files: rstd.io/support-ide-log-files