very slow scan for new items

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

HDD is so far a deprecated technology. Use at least an SSD which will
be x20 faster than an HDD.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 5 oct. 2024 à 18:10, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hmm, 30 hours for a collection on a local HDD? How many images are there?
>
> Images are found to be identical that were already in the collection and were
> deleted (MGP1668.JPG). Did you have corrupted images when transferring from SD
> card? Have you checked your HDD for errors?
>
> Maik
>
> Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2024, 01:10:57 MESZ schrieb Andreas T. Ege:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm using digikam 8.4.0 on Manjaro Linux.
> >
> > For a couple of weeks now scanning for new items has gone so slow it's
> > hardly usable. After 30 hours it's at 11%.
> > As far as I'm aware, the problem started after I had to copy a few
> > folders from sd card for a second time because the first time some
> > images got corrupted, though I suspect that was just coincidence.
> > I'm not aware I updated or installed anything before the problem started.
> >
> > Some console output almost looks like it's scanning for duplicates as
> > well to me, though could be wrong:
> > "digikam.metaengine: Loading metadata with "Exiv2" backend from
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1668.JPG"
> > digikam.dimg:
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1668.JPG"
> >
> > : "JPEG" file identified
> >
> > digikam.database: Adding new item
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1668.JPG"
> > digikam.database: Recognized
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1668.JPG"
> > as identical to item 858228
> > digikam.database: Scanning took 130 ms
> > digikam.metaengine: Loading metadata with "Exiv2" backend from
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1667.JPG"
> > digikam.general: Trying to get thumbnail from
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1667.JPG"
> > ( "image" )
> > digikam.general: Trying to get thumbnail with Exiv2 for
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1667.JPG"
> > digikam.general: Trying to get thumbnail with DImg preview for
> > "/home/andreas/Bilder/privat//pentax/01neu/deutschland2308/IMGP1667.JPG"
> > digikam.general: mimetype =  "JPEG"  ext =  "JPG"
> > digikam.database: Finishing took 2834 ms"
> >
> > Any tips how to debug that?
> > Tried to run a gdb debug, not sure if it's showing much but could post.
>
>
>
>