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Windows 10 Freezes when dealing with large (75GB) MOV files
When dealing with large video files (.MOV QT ProRes) that are 60-100 gigs in file size Explorer on Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise (v1607) will often freeze and come to a grinding halt. Physical memory is gobbled up by Explorer, and then all the Virtual Memory.
Doing a search from Explorer in a folder that contains these large files will cause the freeze 100% of the time. I can replicate this issue on any Windows 10 machine that my company owns (I've tried half a dozen). I downloaded different 4 ISO's directly from Microsoft yesterday and have them each in a VM, I can replicate the issue on two. The two that don't have the issue are the "N" versions of Win10 Pro/Ent (they don't include Windows Media Player and "related technologies"). Also, all versions of Windows 7 do not have this issue. I have dozens of machines here I can test with.
The obvious explanation would be that Windows 10 is trying to generate thumbnails for these large MOV files that it does not understand. However I have disabled this feature (and besides, Windows 7 and the "N" versions have the same feature). The next obvious thing I thought of was that the Windows Search service or Cortana was interfering. But I have disabled them, along with my a/v and everything else I can think of. The problem remains.
I suspect it is trying to read the metadata on these large files, and failing horribly. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what I can try to fix this situation?