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14 hours to import 20k images in catalog

rave81
I never used catalog in Capture one pro, I always use session because its faster. yesterday it was my 1st time to use the catalog system in Capture one to import 20,000 images which are saved in my QNAP raid system it took 14 hours to do plus another 5 hours to generate preview.


Is it really that slow?
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  • Christian Gruner
    [quote="rave81" wrote:
    I never used catalog in Capture one pro, I always use session because its faster. yesterday it was my 1st time to use the catalog system in Capture one to import 20,000 images which are saved in my QNAP raid system it took 14 hours to do plus another 5 hours to generate preview.


    Is it really that slow?


    How much data are the 20k pics ?

    It does sound a little slow, but then again, what are your system specs?
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  • SamC
    I gave up on using catalogs because it would lose images and duplicate images at random and then it started to do that to entire folders of images. Also, the catalog would fail to save changes and would take a very long time to open. I think the catalogs attempt to scan every single image each time you open it so if you have 20,000 images, I assume it will take a few minutes to open each time. I just don't have the patience for something like that. So I would advise you to stick with Sessions.
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  • rave81
    [quote="Christian Gr" wrote:
    [quote="rave81" wrote:
    I never used catalog in Capture one pro, I always use session because its faster. yesterday it was my 1st time to use the catalog system in Capture one to import 20,000 images which are saved in my QNAP raid system it took 14 hours to do plus another 5 hours to generate preview.


    Is it really that slow?


    How much data are the 20k pics ?

    It does sound a little slow, but then again, what are your system specs?


    I'm using the top end version Applie iMac 27" 2013. All the images are saved my raid system which is directly connected to the ethernet of my Imac.

    When I use LR4 is only take 1 hour to import all the images in the catalog, however this Capture One took 14 hours with several crashes....

    So in short the catalog system of Capture One really sucks. Have the integrated Media Pro with Capture one 7 pro properly?
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  • sizzlingbadger
    I have 2009 iMac i5 with my images on a FW800 drive, it takes around 36mins to import my 6800 photos which are 112GB in total. That is referenced so its not copying files into the catalog.

    NAS is slow, its not Capture One that has the issue.
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  • AdamJ
    [quote="sizzlingbadger" wrote:
    I have 2009 iMac i5 with my images on a FW800 drive, it takes around 36mins to import my 6800 photos which are 112GB in total. That is referenced so its not copying files into the catalog.

    NAS is slow, its not Capture One that has the issue.


    No, it's Capture One...

    I've got 21000 images, of which only 9000 are RAW. Import to a new catalog as referenced took 18 hours. Previews took another 6 hours. This was on the third try,the first two times CO crashed during the import process.

    MacBook Pro, QuadCore i7, 16GB RAM, SSD (500MB/s read, 400MB/s write).

    And I agree with the other poster, opening the catalog it first has to 'count' the images which takes about 2 minutes. Support has no fix in sight, although they hope to improve it in the future.
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  • sizzlingbadger
    I have a 2011 macbook Pro Quad Core i7 with 16GB RAM an SSD for the OS and catalog and internal HD for the images. My import is even quicker than on my iMac.

    I wonder if it is non-RAW images causing the issue as I only have few.
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  • ettore.causa
    [quote="Adam4" wrote:
    [quote="sizzlingbadger" wrote:
    I have 2009 iMac i5 with my images on a FW800 drive, it takes around 36mins to import my 6800 photos which are 112GB in total. That is referenced so its not copying files into the catalog.

    NAS is slow, its not Capture One that has the issue.


    No, it's Capture One...

    I've got 21000 images, of which only 9000 are RAW. Import to a new catalog as referenced took 18 hours. Previews took another 6 hours. This was on the third try,the first two times CO crashed during the import process.

    MacBook Pro, QuadCore i7, 16GB RAM, SSD (500MB/s read, 400MB/s write).

    And I agree with the other poster, opening the catalog it first has to 'count' the images which takes about 2 minutes. Support has no fix in sight, although they hope to improve it in the future.



    on my quad macbook pro,16gb
    and with my 61000 images takes more than 5 minutes for C1 to count them !!
    .....in this C1 is far behind the competition

    Hope they will fix that

    Ettore
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  • sizzlingbadger
    Thats really odd, I have only 7000 photos but it only takes about 2-3 seconds to count them at start up. I noticed I didn't have previews for the majority of them so I will generate them and see if that has any effect (it shouldn't but you never know)
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