Re: [Shotwell] Dealing with large photo collections - start-up time



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?
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