Preview unexpectedly slow

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

There is no specific reason to see time latency while previewing
images if all is fine on your computer.

This can be an exception while parsing metadata with Exiv2 or
Exiftool, a database locked in the background, an antivirus side
effect, a storage media dysfunction, etc..

Please provide the digiKam version used, and a log of debug trace from
the console following this page :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#freezes-and-other-run-time-issues

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 4 oct. 2025 à 16:04, Gilles Coremans
<gilles.coremans at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user to Digikam, and I was looking to use it to select the
> best pictures I took on a holiday recently. I sorted the pictures (in
> JPEG format) into folders based on date (50-300 for every day), and then
> just wanted to scroll through them and put the best pictures into a
> different folder and tag them somehow.
>
> However, I immediately noticed that the Preview window is very slow to
> scroll to new pictures. It often takes a second or more to go to the
> next picture. Once I've looked at the pictures it seems I can skim
> through them quickly, but at the start of a session the Preview window
> comes across as very sluggish and slow. I don't get this behavior when
> I'm just using Gwenview to view the photos, so I'm not sure what causes
> this.
>
> I was wondering if this is expected behavior, a bug, or a
> misconfiguration on my part? In any case, it makes Digikam pretty
> unusable for me, so I'm hoping there's some kind of solution to this.
>
> Sincerely,
> Gilles
>