[KimDaBa] trying to generate database for 50 000 images - KimDaBa crashes

[Eugen Dedu]

Christophe Osuna wrote:
> Le Mercredi 11 Janvier 2006 08:59, Risto H. Kurppa a écrit :
> 
>>The subject basically describes the problem: I try to let KimDaBa
>>generate the XML for my about 50 000 photos. The progress bar gets up
>>to around 50 % - and then KinDaBa just disappears/crashes.
>>
>>I have JPG, MPG, AVI, NEF(Nikon RAW) & TIF files in the folder
>>srtucture - could some of these cause the problem? How about user
>>rights, folder structure depth / long name..?
>>
>>Anyone had the same problem?
>>How to solve it?
> 
> 
> I experienced a similar problem; KimDaBa didn't seem to like some file names. 
> I can't remember exactly why, but I guess it was because of apostrophes. You 
> can try to use a search tool to find and rename such files.
> 
> You can also wait and see if somebody comes up with another suggestion (can 
> 50,000 pictures be too much?) :-)

You can move 25000 images away from the directory and execute kimdaba 
with the other 25000 images (also, do not save changes in kimdaba, so 
nothing changes on the disk).  Try afterwards with 12500 images, 6250 
images and so on.

The goal is to discover where the problem is.

HTH,
-- 
Eugen