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Speed up loading the images in a smart album

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Luc Coiffier

The idea is to make it almost instantaneous.

I have several smart albums using combinations of keywords, color coding and star ratings.

Each time I am clicking on one of them I have to wait several minutes just to have the full list of pictures loaded. Even if the filter is something as simple as 'show me the green ones'.

I have 100k+ images in this catalog and my computer is no slouch so please don't tell me to upgrade with a SSD drive and an i7. It's already the case.

I know this has been talked about before. Please make it a priority ,-)

After that, since it will be next to instantaneous, it should be easy to show the number of images in the smart albums.

Thanks,

Luc

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    Jakob Boie Sørensen

    Hi Luc,

    Thank you for reaching out, and for your feature request.

    I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to the Product Management team.


    Have a good day.

    Best regards,

    Jakob, Capture One

  • SFA

    So do you mean "Treat the "Smart" album like a fixed album with a known list of images at the point of loading and then do some checking in the background for any additions or losses? Adjust accordingly if required ...

    Would that work for you?

    The first count might not be accurate of course but would that matter for you purposes?

     

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  • Luc Coiffier

    Indeed, the fact that it would be perfectly accurate all the time is not really important. A low priority background check should be good enough for a starting point.

    The idea is that when you select it, you don't want to wait several minutes for it to populate from scratch.

    So that would be nice to have the feeling that it is instantaneous, even if it's not really ;-)

    Thanks,

    Luc

     

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  • Luc Coiffier

    Hi Jakob,

     

    No problem. Don't hesitate to ask. I know how it is to code something without being sure that it is fullfilling the need ;-)

     

    Luc

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  • Class A

    Luc_, you may want to check whether you are using a screen viewing profile with a watermark.

    The presence of a watermark makes switching between collections much slower compared to using a screen viewing profile without a watermark.

    I don't use smart albums (because they are inherently inefficient) but could imagine that watermarks have a similar negative impact on the refresh speed when smart albums are involved.

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  • Luc Coiffier

    Well, I am not using a watermark so I guess that's can not be the source of the problem.

    As I see it, it seems that when you open/click on a smart album, C1 is going through all the photos instead of using the database to determine which ones are matching the smart album filter.

    Anyway, I hope it will be fixed in a future release.

    Luc

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  • SFA

    Do you have any Sync features active?

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  • Luc Coiffier

    Absolutely not.

     

    The synchronization is made at night with a batch process. So no live sync, or any continuous check of the files.

     

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  • SFA

    So no meta data synchronisation other than an overnight batch process?

    Does that run C1 or just load data in files from external locations to your C1 folders used by your Catalogue? (I'm not sure what is possible for you using an overnight batch.)

     

    Are you batching just metadata changes or importing new images as well?  I.e. are you dropping image files into folders known to the catalogue an then running a batch job to update the catalogue?)

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  • Luc Coiffier

    The overnight batch process is run outside C1.

    And it is a process *from* the files viewed by C1 to an external location. So not so much a sync as a backup.

    The catalog is saved as well in the same process.

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