C1 startup time

Bruce Sanderson

• October 04, 2015 00:38

I am using C1 8.3.3 with a main catalog on the MacPro internal SSD drive and the referenced image files on an external thunderbolt drive. Tests indicate a startup time for a new empty catalog is less than 5 seconds but for the main catalog with 43,000 referenced images the startup time is over 26 seconds even with all the Library folders and collections closed. I do not want to split the catalog because I understand that this would inhibit searches and use of smart albums across the total number of image files. Is it likely to improve the startup time if I shift the catalog so that it is on the same drive as the images. Given the likelihood that the number of images in the catalog will continue to grow, current arrangements imply an increasingly extended startup time. What I am looking for is any way to improve the startup time>

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  paintbox

  • October 04, 2015 14:23

  Your startup time isn't bad at all. This is just the nature of the beast with C1.
  I have both the referenced images and catalog on internal SSD's and my startup time is about a minute.
  Once its up, it'll run quite nicely.
  I assume you are a relatively new user. I can tell ya that Phase One has made some great strides as of recently, so I expect this little issue to get better in time.
  What you can do is create Albums for different events. Lets say you create a Travel Album. If you are working in that album and close C1, upon startup, that album will open. C1 will start much faster. However, when you click "all images" it will beachball while waiting to populate the rest of the images.
  Also, look into Sessions for stuff you want to work on before putting them in a catalog. Sessions opens super fast as its only a fraction of the files you would dealing with if you work out of the catalog.

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  Keith Reeder

  • October 04, 2015 17:43

  [quote="Jimmy D Uptain" wrote:
  Sessions opens super fast as its only a fraction of the files you would dealing with if you work out of the catalog.

  
  
  I'm on a Windows machine, but I use Sessions: Capture One opens with my "default" session loaded, in under ten seconds.

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  Bruce Sanderson

  • October 04, 2015 20:59

  Thanks for the comments. It looks like sessions may well be the pathway to getting up and running faster. Hopefully C1 will improve the time for startup of catalogs. I was an Aperture user and it started up much faster.

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  Andriy.Okhrimets

  • October 09, 2015 10:00

  bkgs The other idea is to chunk your work per catalogs. And not have 1 single large catalog. For example I mainly chunk RAW files based on a client name or location.
  That allows to have small and flexible catalogs.
  Hope that also helps as idea.

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