https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367853
Bug ID: 367853 Summary: Digikam hangs on 'Reading database' when stumbling across MacOS' Photos Library.photoslibrary of a huge size (>20GB) Product: digikam Version: 5.1.0 Platform: Mac OS X Disk Images OS: OS X Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: Database-Scan Assignee: digikam-de...@kde.org Reporter: and...@renderland.de If installed on MacOSX (10.11.6 El Capitan) digikam seemed to freeze in the process of reading the database after starting it for the first time with default settings. This happens if digikam scans the default user's Pictures folder AND in case one already has used the Apple application Photos before that created a huge Photos Library.photoslibrary in the very same folder. Photos Library.photoslibrary is a packaged db in itself. The size of this file is in my case 26 GB as I managed almost 10,000 photos with it. One has to wait a looong time (about half an hour) to see digikam finish reading the content of Photos Library.photoslibrary in its own database and later on it seems to have some performance problems with so many photos or maybe with this file that it represents as a folder structure. It took me a long time to figure out that this is the reason for the apparent freeze – at the beginning I just thought that digikam 5.0.1 is simply not working on MacOSX El Capitan. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (for testing purpose one might) create a huge Photos Library.photoslibrary file in Pictures-folder (default) for many fotos (in my case almost 10.000) with the Photos app of Apple MacOSX El Capitan (it's done automatically if you start it) 2. Install pre-compiled digikam app 3. Start digikam with default settings and let it scan the Pictures folder (happens automatically) with huge Photos Library.photoslibrary in it Actual Results: Digikam hangs on 'Reading database' during startup Expected Results: At least the software should warn the user that it is going to take a very long time to read a file of a certain size or package files like Photos Library.photoslibrary and that it might cause performance problems later on and give the opportunity to skip this file from being written to the databas/to delete it/to move it elsewhere. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.