Hey, I do have a question regarding a strange behavior during file uploads to a SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) document library. I don’t understand the problem at all.
I do have a document library, which will be filled with documents using different file formats. To be precise, Excel, Word and PDF files. Now, when uploading a file, everything runs as expected, however, with PDF files the transfer is absolutely different in terms of transfer duration. All files are not larger than one MB, however, a PDF file will take much more time to be transferred. I have deactivated all Workflows related without any impact. The transfer of a standard document (Word) will take a second, a comparable PDF file will take up to 7 seconds, which sounds still fast, but in the end my solution will transfer a lot of files with a script, so it will slow down the process a lot due to this behavior.
Does someone has any experience with such an issue, and even more important, a solution? Thanks for reading!
Cheers.
Joerg… The general idea of the zip test was to see how much the pdf compressed and if the lower performance was related to compression of the files.
For example, if a Word document if 500k and a pdf is 500k, I would expect the Word document would compress farther than the pdf as pdf files, depending on the file, usually have compression already enabled so they are more dense than a typical Word document.
So, zipping up the Word doc could turn it into a 200k file, whereas the pdf may only shrink to 400k. I figured it may tell us something as to whether this is related to the file size and compression.
So, the question remains… Is the Word document, when compressed, substantially smaller than the pdf?
