https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479711
Bug ID: 479711 Summary: Find new items at startup very slow (Mac) Classification: Applications Product: digikam Version: 8.3.0 Platform: macOS (DMG) OS: macOS Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: Database-Albums Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org Reporter: at...@electropositive.net Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** Further to this bug here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478674 scanning for new files on Mac is still abominably slow. Digikam is effectively completely unusable in this state. I'm talking multiple hours for a single 'fast' scan on either the NAS or the locally connected HDD. SSD seems to be OK, but I don't have many files on that. I have a large library of 90k images I've taken over the years. I've come from various commercial software (Lightroom, Exposure etc) none of them seem to exhibit this problem though Exposure without having a catalog is slowish to load the previews, but even that is not this slow. I have the good fortune of being able to test SSD, external HDD and NAS alongside Windows, Mac and Linux and I haven't so far been able to find anything the performs well except local SSD. The Linux client I have skipped for now based on the other bug needing Digikam 8.3 and no 8.3 version is easily available for OpenSuse. I could try another bistro, but I may be better to downgrade everything to 8.1 and try again. I am at a loss to understand what is causing this, I've turned scan for new files at startup off as it's completely pointless at present and I did have the fast scan option turned on. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Digikam 2. Wait for hours for scan to finish finding new files 3. Check OBSERVED RESULT Many hours to scan EXPECTED RESULT seconds if not minutes to scan SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS macOS: Sonoma, Windows 10 (can try linux) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION My main library is on a ZFS pool on a NAS connected via a 1G cable connection. Mac never seems to be quite as fast so I've also tried connecting digikam via windows. I simply can't buy disks big enough and reliable enough to not use a NAS. Some of the library does include some large 300M tiff files, though even if I isolate those, the problem still persists. I have copied a portion to an external drive to see if that would speed it up, but it doesn't. I read somewhere that I can turn on some kind of debugging mode and provide logs, but I can't seem to find how yet, that might be the best place to start? Thanks. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.