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C12 slow or impossible to start

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Finished importing my 50k images into a catalog yesterday and let it run overnight to build previews, etc. Used it a few time since then trying out various settings. Usually with other programs running, sometimes with many programs running, including Photo Mechanic and Lightroom. Not blazing fast, but it worked fine considering. Now it won't start even if it's the only thing running. Main screen comes up. No thumbs in browser. Nothing happens if I click on anything. Not giving any indication that it is hung, i.e. spinning blue circle (Windows 10). But after several minutes, I end up breaking out of it using task manager. Should I delete catalog and start over? Is there something going on behind the scenes without indication?
TIA for any help
Starting to feel I wasted $300

BTW, I have submitted a ticket, but wanted some user to user feedback.
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  • Ian Leslie
    My 62 000 image catalogue does not exibit that behavior. There is hope.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Thank you for the hope, but I'm still not getting much work done. I am in the process now of rebuilding the catalog, although I am not doing anything differently this time. Is there a tutorial or video somewhere about getting started with large catalogs? Watching a video of someone creating a 100 image catalog isn't very useful. Is there anything I should do after I have imported the images?
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  • IanS
    [quote="DBVirago2" wrote:
    Finished importing my 50k images into a catalog yesterday and let it run overnight to build previews, etc. Used it a few time since then trying out various settings. Usually with other programs running, sometimes with many programs running, including Photo Mechanic and Lightroom. Not blazing fast, but it worked fine considering. Now it won't start even if it's the only thing running. Main screen comes up. No thumbs in browser. Nothing happens if I click on anything. Not giving any indication that it is hung, i.e. spinning blue circle (Windows 10). But after several minutes, I end up breaking out of it using task manager. Should I delete catalog and start over? Is there something going on behind the scenes without indication?
    TIA for any help
    Starting to feel I wasted $300

    BTW, I have submitted a ticket, but wanted some user to user feedback.


    If there are any corrupted files they will be flagged in the Event log found under the Windows menu. If any files are flagged as problems eg unable to build preview etc. C1Pro will start up very slowly until these files are removed.

    The other thing that needs doing is to Export the new catalogue created from the import of many thousands of files as a new catalogue. This fixed C1 slow starting for me and 2 other people I know.

    Ian
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Thank you, I will try these suggestions
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="IanS" wrote:
    [quote="DBVirago2" wrote:
    Finished importing my 50k images into a catalog yesterday and let it run overnight to build previews, etc. Used it a few time since then trying out various settings. Usually with other programs running, sometimes with many programs running, including Photo Mechanic and Lightroom. Not blazing fast, but it worked fine considering. Now it won't start even if it's the only thing running. Main screen comes up. No thumbs in browser. Nothing happens if I click on anything. Not giving any indication that it is hung, i.e. spinning blue circle (Windows 10). But after several minutes, I end up breaking out of it using task manager. Should I delete catalog and start over? Is there something going on behind the scenes without indication?
    TIA for any help
    Starting to feel I wasted $300

    BTW, I have submitted a ticket, but wanted some user to user feedback.


    If there are any corrupted files they will be flagged in the Event log found under the Windows menu. If any files are flagged as problems eg unable to build preview etc. C1Pro will start up very slowly until these files are removed.

    The other thing that needs doing is to Export the new catalogue created from the import of many thousands of files as a new catalogue. This fixed C1 slow starting for me and 2 other people I know.

    Ian


    Guess I misunderstood this one. Exactly how to export as a new catalog. I did File/Export Images/Export as catalog, and by the time it crashed, it had eaten up 160Gb of my hard drive. My original catalog directory was less than 10Gb
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