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<p>I've found that my startup time greatly improves if I set DigiKam
to <i>not</i> scan for new items at startup (settings ->
Configure Digikam.. in Miscellaneous). The side-effect, of
course, is that you have to manually re-scan. My NAS has roughly
25k images.</p>
<p>Do you also get the "cannot load" error when you preview an image
(right-click and select preview)? I've never experienced this
symptom with my setup.</p>
<p>I do have issues if I return to a DigiKam session that has been
idle for several hours. I use Linux automount for my photos
mount, and that may have something to do with it; I've never
diagnosed it, though, so I am just guessing. This may be similar
to your question about having DigiKam open when you disconnect
from your LAN.</p>
<p>FWIW, Lightroom was my preferred tool until DigiKam added manual
control over thumbnail sort order (thanks, DigiKam developers!).
I'm now using DigiKam most of the time.<br>
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<p>Dean</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/19 5:12 PM, Mark Otway wrote:<br>
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having real problems with Digikam running on a catalogue
that's sitting on my NAS. It seems like it's just not set up
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have 400k photos in a NAS share, and have done a full import
(into an internal MySQL DB) which took over 2 days. I'd
expect, at that point, to be able to browse, search and
generally work with the catalogue efficiently when on my home
network with direct access to the NAS. However, the startup
time is abysmal (a few minutes before I get any GUI at all)
and a lot of the time I just get white 'documents' when
searching or browsing, rather than thumbnails. If I
double-click one of the search results, I get the editor with
a message saying Cannot load "". Why would this be? Is it
because I've had Digikam open when I've left my LAN (i.e., had
my laptop on at work), and so it's 'lost' the connection to
the NAS shared folder, and doesn't ever restore it? If so, is
there anything I can do to make it more resilient?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000066">I've
tried Digikam 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1, and with SQLLite, and with
internal MySQL, and it just seems awfully slow and unwieldy. I
was really hoping that I'd be able to switch to using it as a
replacement for Lightroom, but so far the experience has made
it unusable. Any tips to make it work in a slick manner?</div>
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