Import Problems

I am going to have to upgrade to Mavericks soon and have been working with EM 1. Once in a while I'll get a corrupt catalogue file in EM and have to start over. I create a new catalogue file and drag and drop the contents of my photo folder which currently has a little over 100,000 images. I come back the next day and all is well. The catalogue file is a little under 1 GB.

If I try to do the same thing with MP, the catalogue file is massive. 1,000 images yields a 1 GB catalogue file (100 times larger!) and dozens of images return scan errors. The default preview setting appears to be 3200 px. If I rebuild the images with preview set to 2560, most but not all images scan which perviously failed. At 1920 px there are no errors but the catalogue file size is still large for so few images, about 300 MB. Previews at 1920 are essentially unusable. In EM the preview is 5616 and they pop up almost instantly.

What am I doing wrong?

Sesiidae

20. Oktober 2014 20:48

So I partially solved my problem by selecting "Thumbnails and Previews..." under "Edit" and unchecking "Create full screen previews". Now large numbers of photos can be imported without errors. The downside is that previews come directly from the RAW image files and it takes almost a second to load each which is a problem when comparing dozens of images. I can rebuild the images but that takes a very long time at the top res of 3200 px and over 10% fail.

Does anyone have this experience where images fail to scan? Is there a fix?

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