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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>What type of database do you use? <br>
</p>
<p>Where are images stored? Where is database stored?</p>
<p>Do you store metadata in images or in database?</p>
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<p>While I absolutely love Digikam, I experience DK as being rather
slow as well. It seems to be a bit random for me when it is
particularly slow and I havent figured out what causes it.</p>
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<p>However, this seems to be the best configuration for me:</p>
<ul>
<li>Use SQLite</li>
<li>Store SQLite locally on SSDs</li>
<li>Store metadata in database - NOT in images</li>
</ul>
<p>My images are stored on a NAS via SMB. I suspect that might be
part of the reason for the slowness. However, my collection is
prohibitively large to store on local SSD.</p>
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<p>Btw. there is a debug logging feature you can enable in DK. <br>
</p>
<p>Look in Settings.</p>
<p>If you enable this, I believe it logs the timings. Maybe someone
on this list will know how to say something meaningful from such a
trace.</p>
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<p>BR</p>
<p>Thomas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-11-19 18:14, Kolbjørn Stuestøl
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:0aae4937-671f-4faa-a83a-49d40db5d997@stuestoel.no">I've
been using digiKam for a couple of weeks to catalog my images.
(Inserts keywords to find the images again later).
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My problem is that digiKam works very slowly. Takes up to several
minutes to update the images after each change. I have tried
several versions of digiKam with the same result. At the moment
version 8.0.0.
<br>
Running in Windows 11 with the files on external hard drive. The
pictures are 15 - 20 years old taken with a Hewlett Packard
digital camera. Each image is about 2 Mb in size.
<br>
<br>
I have not found anything about this in this or other forums.
<br>
<br>
Kolbjørn
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