Handling huge numbers of files

[mtaylor567]

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I have implemented this file manager for selecting images only to find out that the client had 1000's of images in their image root directory which caused the file manager to stop responding. Unfortunately I can't just organise the files in to folders because they are linked to db records. Is there currently a solution to handle this? I was thinking pagination and saw there was a feature request a while back. Here

https://github.com/servocoder/RichFilemanager/issues/100

Would be interested to know if anything was done. If not, do you have an idea of how it can be implemented? I might be able to put some time in

[psolom]

As you could see we had a few ideas under discussion on how to implement some kind of pagination (lazy loading), but there was no straight way found to keep both files list synced with server. I still think it's possible, but may be time consuming.