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 [email protected]
