Every folder navigation awaited rebuildBreadCrumb() — one sequential
fetch per ancestor level — before requesting the first page, so a
depth-8 folder paid ~8 RTTs of dead time before the content even
started loading. And nothing was cached: navigating between sibling
folders re-fetched the same ancestors every time.
- filesModel: session cache id → FolderItem for breadcrumb resolution
(warm navigations rebuild the trail with zero fetches), invalidated
on rename/move (single + batch) via invalidateFolderMeta. The trail
is now built locally and committed atomically, guarded by a
generation token so a rebuild superseded by a faster follow-up
navigation can no longer interleave writes into the newer trail.
- filesView.loadFiles: the rebuild runs concurrently with the first
page fetch; crumbs, history and title update when it resolves.
Navigation latency becomes max(listing, ancestor chain) instead of
their sum — and ~equal to the listing alone once the cache is warm.
The home-folder fallback for inaccessible targets is preserved by
reloading the listing when the rebuild had to reset app.currentPath.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dp3oWon5GBMVn4j3QXZdgx
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