<div dir="ltr">Under OSX, there is a system limitation which do not exist under Linux (or if you prefer, a different UNIX system settings) : The max open files by users.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/tuning/open-files-limit/#Mac-OS-X">http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/tuning/open-files-limit/#Mac-OS-X</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Look this blog entry for details, and try to tune OSX to increase the limit, to see if this improve digiKam...</div><div><br></div><div>Note : Under my Yosemite, no similar dysfunction are visible, with default system settings.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-08-31 13:07 GMT+02:00 J Albrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heviiguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">heviiguy@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Even after having deleted the thumbnail and digikam4 databases, and performed thumbnail rebuild maintenance a frustratingly many number of times, the photo thumbnail previews still do not generate! It’s driving me nuts. Can somebody hold my hand and walk me though this? Many thanks in advance.<br>
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I’m running 4.12 on Yosemite.<br>
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