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synchronise the metadata?

Timothy Devick
On another forum I was in ad discussion with another user about the extremely slow search speed of C1 compared to LR. He commented that if I were to "synchronise the metadata" that my search would be as fast as LR. I don't how to synchronize the metadata, though. I know how to re-load metadata for one image from disk, but it would take forever if I did that for every one of my 20k images. Does anyone know what this guy is talking about? I replied and asked him how to do that but he never replied.
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  • OddS.
    NNN636286928999838177 wrote:
    ...Does anyone know what this guy is talking about? I replied and asked him how to do that but he never replied.


    There have been claims made to Preferences->Image->Auto Sync Sidecar XMP set to Full Sync will cause C1 to spend too much resources on reloading image metadata embedded in image files and sidecar files and/or writing to sidecar files. The remedy is, they say, to NOT have Auto Sync on.

    I never investigated this myself and I am not sure if it is true. There may be other reasons for slow searches.

    My Auto Sync Sidecar XMP is set to None. Not because of potential bad effect on search speed, but because I do metadata work outside C1 and I won't let C1 interfere with that, no sync/reload unless I dictate it to do so (manually). Moreover, I use C1 in session mode and search speed is hardly an issue for me.
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  • Ian Leslie
    Changing the way C1 syncs (or not) metadata has no meaningful effect on my issues with search speed in C1. I suppose it is possible that using full sync makes things worse but if I search 60K images with the settings recommended by support it takes 10-20 minutes so it matters exactly zero if turning on full sync makes that worse.

    If searching took seconds with syncing off and minutes with syncing on then it would be worth considering. But as it stands now if searching all images takes 15 minutes with syncing off it hardy matters if it takes 25 minutes with it on.
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  • Timothy Devick
    thanks everyone! It sounds like the guy doesn't know what he's talking about or his experience is a lot different than yours.
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