# Reading Directory is slow on network drive
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory-is-slow-on-network-drive/8539
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory-is-slow-on-network-drive/8539 "2009-07-01T22:34:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@photojon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/photojon)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory-is-slow-on-network-drive/8539/1 "2009-07-01T22:34:40Z")
I am a new user of MP3Tag. I have about 5,000 mp3 on a NAS box on my home network. When I start MP3Tag, I get a dialog box that says reading directory and then it begins counting from 1 to about 5,000. It takes about 1 second for the number to increment. This means I have to wait about 5,000 seconds after starting MP3tag before I can start using it.
Is there anything I should check to see why it is taking so long? I have searched the fourms and google and noted that there was a slow "debug" flag set in 2.42 but I am running 2.43 and presume it is fixed
Thanks in advance for the help.
Jon
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory-is-slow-on-network-drive/8539/2 "2009-07-12T18:55:16Z")
Hi Jon,
unfortunately, reading the tags takes some time when you access the files via a network.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory-is-slow-on-network-drive/8539/3 "2026-02-09T12:21:37Z")