Capture One unacceptably slow on renaming

Fanjan Combrink

• September 11, 2023 13:34

I have the following:

2020 Macbook M1 Air Base model (256GB storage, 8Gb RAM)

Running Ventura 13.4.1

Capture One 23 Pro (16.2.3.32) Build 11312e2

I have over 13,000 images in this session. C1 is hilariously slow. 

Today I started sorting through images for the various clients (I covered a gymnastics event).

All the images are in the Capture Folder.

I made a few Albums to assign images to clients (Album links to competitor).

I placed the 25 images in the Album

Then I batch renamed them....and I am presented with this: 

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  David Mantripp

  • September 19, 2023 07:16

  Assuming you have all the images you are renaming selected, try deselect all after the process starts.  This hugely speeds up metadata batch operations, maybe it helps as well with renaming.

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  Fanjan Combrink

  • September 19, 2023 07:38

  Thanks David. I ended up breaking up the images into 5 sessions of around 2600 images in each session. It helped. Still not sure why C1 is so slow though. 

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  BeO

  • September 19, 2023 10:22

  

  I am trying an explanation (not an excuse), including a bit of speculation.  A session as a concept for tethered shooting is constantly monitoring all image files in the "session folder" "Capture" and is probably not expecting 13k images for a tethered shooting. File/harddrive operations are costly and maybe the Capture folder is monitored more often than other folders, which might explain that it is slow with this number of images (at least for some operations like renaming). If you'd put the images into any other folder on your disk and add this folder as a favorite (or don't), maybe it is faster (assuming favorite folders are not monitored to the same extent as the Capture folders is).

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  Fanjan Combrink

  • September 19, 2023 10:37

  This is an interesting thought BeO. Very much a possibility, I just don't know given in these sessions I am not live in tethering - maybe a bug or a feature. It is worth a test for sure once I'm done with exporting and delivering of these images.
  
  What I think I might do is move, in the current case, 2500 images from the Capture Folder to the Selects folder, ultimately making the capture folder empty and see if the speed increases. I have noticed this morning (I updated one of my other posts) that if I simply click from one Album to the next, C1 starts all over to generate previews even if I wait for all the previews in each album to be completed. I even moved the images in the two albums to the Capture folder and still the same behaviour. I do not change a thing. I simply click on the album, highlight all the images, and C1 starts to generate previews. Once done, I click on the other album, all the images are also selected, and C1 generates previews. If I then click on the initial album, C1 starts all over again to generate previews.

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