digiKam freezes when scanning a new collection

[Pingu-Mann-Zɔro]

I have the same problem on a i7 CPU with 16GB Ram on a MacBookPro,
straight after a new installation.
The collection is said to be reading, but in fact digiKam becomes
unresponsive.
After a day I had to kill the process. Can't get digiKam to work at all now.


On 22/01/2017 12:59, Chris Green wrote:
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2017-01-22 6:52 GMT+01:00 Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I have a Core i5 CPU with 4 cores and when I add a collection from an
>>> external hard drive, digiKam becomes unresponsive.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible touse a separate thread to scan new collections?
>>>
>> All is multithreaded in digiKam : scan items and database registration.
>>
>> If you use a remote database, network latency can be a problem. Didi you
>> try to use a local database ?
>>
> Well I see exactly the same issue when adding a big block of new
> directories to digikam.  I have a similar CPU and 8Gb RAM with digikam
> running under Linux.  The digikam window simply freezes until it has
> scanned the new directories.
>
> It's not noticeable when adding small collections as it only takes a
> fraction of a second to scan and add them, it's only noticeable when
> adding a big block of thousands of images.
>
> I'm doing this all on an internal disk drive by the way.
>
>