[Shotwell] Updating library…

[Lucas Beeler]

Hi Romain,

I looked at your log file and I don't see anything out of the
ordinary. How many photos are in your library? Note that Shotwell will
always do a startup scan to check that everything in your library is
where it's supposed to be (i.e., to make sure that your backing photo
files haven't been moved or deleted). If you have a library of say,
50,000 photos, that scan will definitely take a while, because of the
disk seek time if nothing else. So if you have a large library, seeing
the "updating library" progress indicator for 30 seconds or so is the
correct behavior. But note that Shotwell's startup scan runs in a
background thread, so Shotwell should be perfectly usable and
responsive even while the startup scan is in progress.

Obviously, if you have your photos files on a slow-to-access storage
device, such as an NAS device, the startup scan will take longer than
if your photos were stored on your local disk.

Lucas

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Lucas Beeler <lucas at yorba.org> wrote:
> Hi Romain,
>
> What would be really helpful here is a log file generated by Shotwell
> during one of these start-ups that requires a long time "updating
> library." Shotwell has a logging feature and is pretty good about
> writing into the log file what it is doing at any given time.
>
> To run Shotwell with logging enabled, start Shotwell with this command line:
>
> $ SHOTWELL_LOG=1 shotwell
>
> This will generate a log file at ~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log.
>
> If you can reproduce this behavior with logging turned on, email your
> log file to shotwell at yorba.org (the mailing list doesn't accept
> attachments). That'd go a long way to helping us nail down what's
> causing this issue.
>
> Lucas
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Romain Vimont (®om) <rom at rom1v.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use Shotwell 0.11.2, and on almost every start (except if the last
>> start was only few minutes ago), it executes "updating library", which
>> is quite long (30 seconds or 1 minute), while there are absolutely no
>> changes in my library.
>>
>> Moreover, in preferences, "Watch library directory for new files" is
>> disabled.
>>
>> Any idea ?
>>
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