I remember a few months ago that a user had a 30mb picture that was attached. His machine took up to many resources that Legacy would crawl. He also removed the photo(tiff), and it solved the problem
Tim Rosenlof Utah, USA On 5/28/2012 9:23 AM, William (Bill) R. Linhart wrote: > Ron, thanks. That is a good point about the the source images I have > stored in the Legacy/pictures folder not actually being in Legacy. > > I think that Legacy may read and render those images in > Legacy/pictures so that it can present the small pictures in the > gallery. In my case that is 13 small pictures displayed in rows of 5 > each. > > I am guessing that Legacy may be using some temporary files on disk > for working storage when resizing the images for presentation in > gallery format on the screen. > > I think something degrades in the end-to-end image processing that > causes the gallery feature of Legacy to eventually get stuck consuming > high amounts of CPU indefinitely after some threshold of picture count > is reached in the picture gallery. Then after deleting that > threshold picture from the gallery the CPU usage returns to 0%. > > There is always the chance that something is broken in only my > computer. That is especially true if no one else has this problem. > > But I have not other symptoms of trouble on my machine. Since I am > relatively new to Legacy, I may have done something that "broke" > Legacy. But I don't know what that could be. > > This is very puzzling. > > Bill > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
