Check a couple of things: 1. In preferences, disable the similarity process. Unless you are going to use it, it will take a while to process 35.000 images. 2. Even if you have imported all your images, use the collect module in left panel to just select the bunch of images in which you are working on. That way, the thumbnails will be generated only once, and it should improve your performance. Some devs have libraries similar to yours, so it shouldn't be a problem in general. The problem may arise if you try to scroll all through the 35.000 images.
Answering your workflow questions: 1. You don't need to delete the library. Just select the images you don't want to be in it (use collect module in left panel to define them, and select all in right panel + remove button - WARNING: delete button will erase them from your disk) 2. You can have different libraries. Just move the current one in ~/.config/darktable/library.db to other place and a new one will be created as soon as you open darktable again. If you want to open the moved one, just call darktable --library /path/to/library There is an issue with this approach, as presets are stored only in the library now, you will have to recreate them 3. Not recommended With your folder scheme, I recommend you the 'folders' view in the collect module. Regards On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Marcin Sikora <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new user of DT. Before I have used Bibble on Linux which > transformed to After Shot by Corel. I really like the speed of this > RAW management tool. But still I'm not sure about if it is the best > RAW converter for Linux. I would like to give a try to DT since its > futures seem to be very impressive. Still I'm hesitating between > RawTherapy and Darktable. > > Up to now I prefere DT with all interesting plugins but I'm struggling > with the speed of DT. Switching from Darkroom back to Light Table is > extremely slow (more then 30 seconds). Currently I have imported only > a small part of my pictures to the DT library (approx. 35.000 > pictures). I would like to work with much more. But with current GUI > it is very inconvenient. > > I see that more users have similar problem: > http://www.darktable.org/redmine/issues/8981 . There is a quite > advanced discussion (_count_images staff etc.) which is beyond the DT > beginner skills. Is ther any insiders command/debugging help for DT > users? > > Or is there a simple solution? Could you help me to establish a good > work flow? E.g. > > 1. Import only a small amount of pictures and delete library when I > would like to move to work with another part of my pictures? > > 2. manually selection of smalled sub-libraries from command line e.g. > to create library for each year separately? > > 3. use another software to manage pictures e.g. Digikam and use DT > only for converting RAWs for single pictures. > > My pictures are organised in file tree: > > <year>/<Month (max 12 sub-folders)>/<Year-Month-Day (max 31 > sub-folders>/<RAW files (can be hundreds)> > > I'm using the most resent git version of DT (last time I tried it yesterday) > > > Best regards, > Marcin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users -- José Carlos García Sogo [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
