[Shotwell] Path of a picture

[oliver]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:24:51PM -0700, Laura Khalil wrote:
> Hi again Oliver,
> >
> > Shotwell says, there are now 29.775 photographs.
> > But I'm not sure if raw and jpeg are counted together.
> > But I have a lot more photographs which are not already
> > slurped into shotwell.
> > So I have some more stuff to look what happens if I use real
> > data in shotwell with much more than 30k files.
> > But at the moment I need shotwell to create some prints from
> > some phortographs, and so I have no time to insert more photos just
> > to test the behaviour of shotwell.
> >
> I am creating a library of this size to see if some of the problems
> you're experiencing may be related to scalability issues. At the the
> moment, I'm not able to replicate the issues you're having with
> extended information or with pictures rotating 90 degrees while
> zooming.
> 
> My next hunch is that your photos may somehow be corrupted.
[...]

Even I think thats not very likely, I can not be sure if thats the case.
I can check this later, maybe at the weekend I can do it.

> 
> If I am able to replicated your issues with a larger library, I will
> let you know.

OK.

One performance issue I had a while ago with about 100k files
I could not reproduce with the real data.
In my old test all files were from same date and so they
were all in one directory, which might be the reason
for the problem (possible filesystem slowdown).

But with about 30k files I also saw similar behaviour when straung
shotwell: at about 49 and 50 percent of loading the database,
startup slows down a littlebid and afterwards speeds up again.
This kind of behavior also was with my 100k files test (in one directory),
but then it needeed minutes until shotwell was usable.
If this problem was related to filesystem issue or not
I can't say at the moment.

At the moment working with shotwell is fluent.
It has helped me well in preparing my pictures for
a exhibition. :)

Ciao,
   Oliver