[Shotwell] Slow Import with many duplicates...

[Lucas Beeler]

Hi Norbert,

Is your import from devices slow even when there are no duplicates present?
We know of an issue involving duplicates (
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3687) that can cause Shotwell to become
unresponsive, but if a usual-case import (i.e. no duplicates) slows
Shotwell to the point of being unresponsive, that's a serious problem and
we should open a new ticket for it.

Curiously, does import speed seem in any way proportional to the number of
photos you have in your library? If you've got an empty library, is import
faster than in your personal photo library with (I'm guessing) thousands of
photos? I ask because a slowdown proportional to library size suggests that
the duplicate detection code path might be involved.

Cheers,
Lucas


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Di, 09 Apr 2013, Lucas Beeler wrote:
> > As Norbert noted, some of the problems you see may have something to do
> > with an interaction between the Shotwell import subsystem and your
> > particular memory card or card reader. That said, this error:
>
> I am not 100% sure. I have the very same extrem slowdown of shotwell
> when importing either from iPhone or from the laptop-builtin sd-card
> reader. Copying the files from these devices to the hard drive works
> liek a breeze.
>
> So it seems that something *is* wrong in the import.
>
> Finding time I will try to debug it.
>
> Norbert
>
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