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Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 2:35 pm
by flips
Hi! Running 0.86 on macOS 10.12.6, quite new i5, 8 GB RAM, SSD drive.
I'm organizing quite a lot of photos in batches.
If I enter a directory with 400+ photos, XnViewMP uses quite a while just processing it.
Then when I do select all and change/remove/add categories, it's left working for quite a while, seemingly unresponsive. (Shown as "Not responding in Activity Monitor".)
This is not unexpected and probably quite OK.
My question is:
Is there a rule of thumb/recommendation of max number of JPEGs (3264x2448 pixels) per folder?
So far I've a few folders with 300-650 photos in each.
(Oh, and some of the photos are on a CIFS/SMB share.)
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:42 am
by xnview
flips wrote:
If I enter a directory with 400+ photos, XnViewMP uses quite a while just processing it.
Then when I do select all and change/remove/add categories, it's left working for quite a while, seemingly unresponsive. (Shown as "Not responding in Activity Monitor".)
Your pictures are in jpeg? Are you saving categories in XMP metadata?
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:40 pm
by flips
xnview wrote:
Your pictures are in jpeg? Are you saving categories in XMP metadata?
Yes, JPEG's, storing categories in XMP, not sidecar files.
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:41 am
by xnview
so when changing categories, i need to edit the metadata of all your files, this can take long for many files
how long is it?
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:56 pm
by flips
xnview wrote:so when changing categories, i need to edit the metadata of all your files, this can take long for many files
how long is it?
I think it froze/worked for 2-4 minutes when there was about 500 files to process.
I was thinking maybe there's a rule of thumb/recommendation for files per directory ...
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:53 pm
by xnview
flips wrote:
I was thinking maybe there's a rule of thumb/recommendation for files per directory ...
The number of files per directory is not the problem, the problem is the number of files that you want to update by changing categories/rating/...
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:07 pm
by flips
Makes sense ... so I should limit that to batches of ~50 files?
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 6:36 am
by xnview
flips wrote:Makes sense ... so I should limit that to batches of ~50 files?
yes better
Re: Indexing, tagging and CPU/MEM usage question
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:52 pm
by flips
I think I'll split each dir into Months as well as Year, and it'll be ~50 in each ...