Importing pictures very slow

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Twan Dieltjes
Due to damaged catalogs by C1 12.1.4 crashas, I have to recreate my catalogs.

When I use the option " Import images" and browse the a folder on my NAS with contains let say 3000 pictures, it takes a terrible amount of time to create and show all the thumbnails. So it not even importing pictures at that moment.
Is there a faster way to import a complete folder into C1? I'm not interested to see all the thumbnails, C1 should just import the pictures.

I've tried the synchronise folder option but on the toplevel structure, C1 does not create folders which aren't imported yet and it feels like it takes days.

I connect to my NAS (Synology 918+) via SMB via a giga net ethernet cabled connection.
Every connection to my NAS feels normaly on respect of speed, only C1 is slow.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    In the Import Images dialog, at the bottom, there is a setting Import Collection with a drop-down list. The default is Open collection when import starts.

    Change this to Never open import collection. This should speed up large imports.
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  • Twan Dieltjes
    Does this setting also helps for the pre import phase when c1 searches for pictures in the selected folder?

    Then I’ll try it. Current c1 is importing 4069 files and reports it will take about 2 hours
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="NNN636737621499121270" wrote:
    Does this setting also helps for the pre import phase when c1 searches for pictures in the selected folder?

    No, I don't think so.
    [quote="NNN636737621499121270" wrote:

    Then I’ll try it. Current c1 is importing 4069 files and reports it will take about 2 hours

    That is a lot of time for 4000 files. Although I have a similar NAS as you, and run everything over 1 Gb Ethernet, it is much slower compared to the internal drive. I think that is the bottleneck here.
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  • Twan Dieltjes
    Tried to import pictures from 3 weeks Iceland. Yes, about 4000 files because I shoot raw + jpg.
    Almost done, and C1 12.1.5 crashed in the process of building the thumbnails. So again 2 hours lost....

    pffff start losing faith in C1....
    and still no reaction on my support call....

    It's useless now in my situation....
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