On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Thomas Post <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am new to Shotwell. I got it started (from Linux Mint 11 2.6.38-13 > GNOME 2.32.1) and I started Import - all pictures on my harddrive and an > attached external drive. After 3 days of non-stop grinding (top showed > shotwell consuming most of the CPU all the time ~ 97%) it showedd me that > it had achieved 17%. That I thought was a good thing because the previous > 2 days showed me nothing. After 6 days of grinding and my fans on high, > the status bar said 34%. After 8 days it said 38% and I had enough of this > nonsence. I killed the process and fired shotwell up again to find that it > had imported only 2866 pictures. I don't know how many pictures I have on > my computer, but if shotwell can only process 358 pictures per day, that's > aweful and I hope you will address that in your new release. Since then, I > have imported some pictures from some camera memory cards and in one > instance it took more than 2 hours to import 14 pictures. That is not > great. > > Also when it loads it stops at 49% for about 1 Minute, then zips to 99% > loaded for at least 3 minutes before doing anything. > > My laptop is an HP Pavillion DV8000 with 1 GB RAM, AMD Turion 64 Mobile > Technology ML-80. Shotwell version 0.9.3. > > Tom > > Please post separate questions in separate threads. Its basic mailinglist decency. Also, at least try to do an honest attempt at running the latest Shotwell version before posting problems (its basic bug posting decency). There have been 3 major, new releases since 0.9.3, all of which (amongst other issues) improved heavily on importing. Michiel _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
