[digiKam-users] New user - software super slow

[Scott McCoy]

Hi, everyone. I'm new with DigiKam.

I'm having major issues with it. It's so slow that I basically can't use it at all. It's constantly timing out and even crashed once.

Today, I opened the software and tried to move the window to my main monitor to make it maximized. Every time I grabbed the window, it would go into "not responding." After 10 minutes of just trying to move the window, I gave up and forced the software closed.

When it does run, the thumbs never fully load. It also is super slow in anything I do. Just twirling open a sub-directory takes about three minutes. Then I click on a file and it goes into "not responding" again for a minute or so.

I have no idea what is wrong?

I don't have any issues with other software, like Directory Opus, Adobe Bridge, for FileCenter, that handle much of the same types of file tasks.

My computer is a high-power machine built for video editing and gaming (not that I game).

- Windows 10 (latest updates)
- 16GB Ram
- i7 processor

My main location for media is on a USB 3.0 external drive.

Any help would be appreciated. Looks like it could be great software if I can get it to work.

Scott

[woenx]

Hi Scott,

When I first used it, I also found this software quite slow. And I still
experience the slowdowns and windows not responding while it is scanning for
new pictures or when it's writing metadata to a bunch of pictures. This is
specially noticeable when the pictures are stored in a low-latency medium
(like a network share), but should be more or less ok once it has finished
scanning and reconstructing the thumbnails. At that point, it works pretty
well.



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[Scott McCoy]

Thank you. However, how do I know if it's scanning? Yesterday, I started it and left it from about 14 hours straight, and came back to it locked/crashed.

Scott

On 9/22/2020 12:02 PM, woenx wrote:

Hi Scott, 

When I first used it, I also found this software quite slow. And I still
experience the slowdowns and windows not responding while it is scanning for
new pictures or when it's writing metadata to a bunch of pictures. This is
specially noticeable when the pictures are stored in a low-latency medium
(like a network share), but should be more or less ok once it has finished
scanning and reconstructing the thumbnails. At that point, it works pretty
well.



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Le 22/09/2020 à 19:22, Scott McCoy a écrit :
> Thank you. However, how do I know if it's scanning? Yesterday, I started
> it and left it from about 14 hours straight, and came back to it
> locked/crashed.
>

how many images do you have? network share or hard disk? (usb3 is ok)

What system: linux, windows, mac?

a solution is to split image collection in  several trees and only scan
one at first

jdd


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[woenx]

Ok, that not normal at all then.

when it scans (or when it applies changes), there's a progress bar near the
bottom right corner.

What operating system do you use?



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[Scott McCoy]

Windows 10. That progress bar is at 37% for hours....

Scott H. McCoy

On Sep 22, 2020, at 5:15 PM, woenx <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ok, that not normal at all then. 

when it scans (or when it applies changes), there's a progress bar near the
bottom right corner.

What operating system do you use?



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[Scott McCoy]

USB 3.0. Maybe 11k images?

Scott H. McCoy

On Sep 23, 2020, at 3:09 PM, "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Le 22/09/2020 à 19:22, Scott McCoy a écrit :
 Thank you. However, how do I know if it's scanning? Yesterday, I started 
 it and left it from about 14 hours straight, and came back to it 
 locked/crashed.
 

how many images do you have? network share or hard disk? (usb3 is ok)

What system: linux, windows, mac?

a solution is to split image collection in  several trees and only scan 
one at first

jdd

Le 23/09/2020 à 23:51, Scott McCoy a écrit :
> USB 3.0. Maybe 11k images?
>

should not be that long (I have many more)

jdd

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