Do you happen to have a large amount of data in your event or photo comment fields? I have a library with 17K photos and Shotwell was taking several minutes to start. A few months ago, I found the cause of the problem to be my large event comments. The attached patch disables searching by event comment but it makes Shotwell start with my library in under 3 seconds. I planned to submit a bug report once I had a correct patch ready to fix the issue. Brian On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 07:52:51PM -0400, a.gnome wrote:
I have about 23K photo files going back to 1999 under Shotwell's management. Even on an SSD, it takes about 90 seconds for Shotwell to become responsive after starting up, which sometimes makes it pretty painful to use. What strategies have you used to deal with large collections of photos, while ensuring that all metadata (tags etc) are preserved? I was thinking of maintaining a small "Current" library for photo imports, initial organization, tagging, etc; and an "Archive" library for older photos, but foresee problems moving photos from "Current" to "Archive" as time goes on, especially with the metadata. Are there plans to make Shotwell more capable when it comes to managing large photo libraries? _______________________________________________ shotwell-list mailing list shotwell-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/shotwell-list
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