[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I guess the best would be to have album scanning in its own thread, so that
> scanning can be started while DigikamApp() is running through.
>
> Is this possible? Can we run this in a separate thread?

AlbumManager is not thread-safe.
But I suspect the real problem is adding the KDirWatches? Is it faster 
removing line 1050,
      d->dirWatch->addDir(location.albumRootPath(), KDirWatch::WatchSubDirs);
?