Scott,
On 01/29/2012 04:21 AM, Scott wrote:
Hi there,
Firstly, i'm unsure of wheather i am even in the right place, and as
this is my first post (and am unsure of how to check older posts) am
unsure wheather this has been raised before even.
You're in the right place. To check older posts, look at the archive of
messages previously sent to this list at
http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/ .
But my question is, is it possible in future versions to have the
option, somewhere in the preferences, of where rendered RAW files are
stored? I used to be a little annoyed that it did store those files
in the home directory when my collection was stored locally on the
hdd. But now, for a few reasons, my collection is on an external hdd,
and rendering in the new version is in-line which makes accessing and
rendering much slower than it needs to be.
Are you sure that storing the external hard drive is really the
bottleneck? Which operations seem to be slow?
In the Shotwell preferences, have you set RAW Developer to Shotwell or
Camera? Unfortunately this is an area of Shotwell which is quite buggy
at this time - see http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4691 and
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4692, for example. Our intent in 0.11
was that if the user sets the RAW Developer preference to Camera then
Shotwell should never develop a photo itself, which will greatly speed
importing and rendering. Unfortunately due to these bugs this is not
the case, and that may be the true cause of the slowness you're
perceiving. I hope we can improve the situation for 0.12.
For those that do use external drives, a feature like this could be
similar to imatch's offline caching of photo's (shotwell is what i
replaced imatch with). I am one that would copy the rendered JPG's
manually if i needed them and especially if they were in the same
folder hirachy as the library.
Also - another feature that would be handy is, again in preferences,
the option of batch rendering RAW or on-demand as the current version
does. I have always liked the batch proccessing of RAW files,
especially on first import from a fresh install, but i guess those
with in-line rendering would not have this problem.
I'm not sure I understand what this preference would do. If you set RAW
Developer to Shotwell, then Shotwell should render all RAW photos at
import time so they are available to display immediately when you open
them. If you set RAW Developer to Camera, then they should always be
immediately available since there is no rendering to be done. Again,
due to bugs this isn't exactly how things work today, but that's the
intent. I'm not sure whether you all call this "batch" or "on-demand".
Does this behavior seem reasonable to you, or do you want the option for
things to work differently?
adam
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