digiKam freezes when scanning a new collection

[Gilles Caulier]

I think the problem is the registration in DB of non image files and all
hidden files.

There is patch in bugzilla to introduce a settings to filter unwanted
dirs/files while scanning. It's not yet finalized and need to be review.
Look here :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123097

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-23 2:16 GMT+01:00 Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 ?
>>
>
> There is no network involved; the external hard drive is connected via
> USB. I also have 16GB of RAM (though Chrome eats up most of it
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=134612>).
>
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