<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I don't know how to speed digiKam up besides placing the database files on an SSD but you can also switch the Lazy Syncronization ON. </div><div>DigiKam won't be writing changes right away then and will do so during idle time.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Anders Lund <anders@alweb.dk> </div><div>Date: 2017-02-27 11:37 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digikam-users@kde.org </div><div>Subject: digikam hangs reading the database </div><div><br></div></div>What is wrong when digikam is extremely slow reading the database? Almost a <br>minute during startup. During operation, digikam is very slow when something <br>happens, for example a photo is rated, or a new photo added by an outside <br>application. <br><br>I use sqlite.<br><br>Is there anything that can be done to clean up the database? <br><br><br>Kindly,<br>Anders<br></body></html>