Changing a keyword or metadata trigger the writing of the xmp with updated information. Using this on some large collection can take a very long time if the files are on an external drive. During this time darktable is not responsive to any action.
It wouldn't be an issue if the waiting was 1 or 2 seconds but yesterday I have cleaned up some of my tags and metadata on selection of 1000, 2000 or 4000 files and I had to wait sometime more than 1 minute! After looking a bit a this the issue is on the writing of the xmp. It is ok with local files but on a NAS it is very slow. My proposal would be to write the XMP as background jobs. Does this makes sense? Do you see a drawback? -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
