Thank you for the information. I'm glad to know that it isn't an issue with 2.6 or Windows.
I see that collecting by film roll as you suggest (or by folder ) makes darktable much faster going to and from the darkroom, but it is still quite sluggish adding tags and ratings. Is that what you experience as well? Thanks, Ed On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:59 PM August Schwerdfeger < aug...@schwerdfeger.name> wrote: > I strongly doubt that your issues have anything to do with either > version 2.6 or Windows specifically. I have been using Darktable with > large databases for quite a while, and have encountered these same > issues on every operating system (except Windows) and every Darktable > version from 1.4 onward, despite continuous improvements (in early > versions, when the number of tags in the database increased, it took > minutes rather than seconds to tag an image). > > One thing that helps for me is to collect by film roll or color label > rather than by tag whenever possible -- for some reason, even image > editing in the darkroom mode is slower when collect-by-tag is being used. > > -- > August Schwerdfeger > aug...@schwerdfeger.name > > > On 3/9/19 9:31 PM, Ed Gaillard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new darktable user, using the Windows port. I have a database of > > about 200000 photos, which I had tagged using AfterShot, and used a > > script found online to convert those XMP files to darktable's format, > > then began importing them into darktable a few folders at a time while > > also importing my new photos straight into darktable. This all went > > well, so around the time I had 40000 images in the database, I > > upgraded to 2.6 and then imported the rest of my photos all at once. > > Probably it was a mistake to do both of those at the same time.. > > > > Anyway, some aspects of performance with this large database are very > > slow. Selecting multiple photos in the lighttable file manager mode > > (which I normally use) takes several seconds, applying a star rating > > to them takes many seconds (30 seconds or more); typing a tag in the > > metadata pane takes several seconds. Going from lighttable to darkroom > > takes a few seconds, but going back to light table takes nearly a minute. > > > > On the other hand,collecting images using a tag is very very fast, > > which seems inconsistent with the other problems being down the size > > of the database. Also, when I switch to the zoomable light table, the > > slow operations (except for typing tags) are somewhat to much faster, > > but still too slow to be really usable. > > > > All this behavior persists on version 2.6.1, which I just installed. > > So, is anyone else using the Windows version with such a large > > database and having problems? Is there anything I can configure in > > darktable that might help? I suppose I could reimport the photos into > > several smaller databases, but that seems painful. > > > > Thanks, > > Ed Gaillard > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
