Is this good catalog loading?
I have a 25gb catalog that I imported from Lightroom. It is located on my iMac retina, latest model and fastest processor. It has a fusion hard drive. The raw images are on an attached thunderbolt hard drive. Today I timed the "catalog loading" process to be about 32 seconds using Capture1 9. Not having any experience with previous versions is this normal. It seemed a little longer than my Lightroom catalog.
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That may be better than previous versions.
Cataloging isn't C1's strong suit.
I try not to use it, but just for giggles I just opened a catalog and it took about 2 minutes to "open" and its still beach-balling after 5 minutes.
I have about 40K images.0 -
Yes this is normal. That is why I am to keep my catalog as small as possible. I.e 1 catalog 1 job, to simplify my backup, and make it more fast to load. 0 -
Capture One 8.3.4
Catalog on internal SSD of rMBP (16 GB).
Images: 39985
Catalog size: 62 GB
Catalog database file size: 246 MB
Takes 50 seconds to start C1 and load catalog.
At the moment I have 4 large catalogs like that. That is already something I don't like as it doesn't allow me to find images quickly across catalogs and switching/loading catalogs is too slow.0 -
Yes that is normal, for catalog like, that. Opening catalog is slow around 1 minute, that`s why splitting in small catalogs works like a charm.
I preffer 1 job - 1 catalog aproach to awoid issues you getting into0 -
Same here, iMac 5k 3,3 GHz and 24GB RAM. Opening a 25GB catalog takes about 30sec.
I use it referenced, having all images in separate folders on the local Fusion Drive. The catalog file itelf does only contain adjustments and previews.
I don't like to split up the catalog because I want my smart albums to cover all of my photos. Same applies for searching. Or is there a way to search over multiple catalogs?
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