So I have been using downloader pro for awhile and now I am running into a problem. I am trying to view a ton of pictures (1000+ to 5000+) at a time in one folder. When I select them all it takes about 6-10 seconds per file to view it and when I go slide show and press the right or left arrow it takes that long.
When I select 100 or so images the same thing so I know it's not how many I select, but is there an issue with how many are in the actual folder itself?
I'm not getting that sort of slow response when I view over 1000 images (all .cr2 raw files). Maybe the problem is too little RAM for your computer to operate with. I have 2GB in my laptop. If, for example, you have 512MB and you're running Windows XP then it will crawl. Too little RAM forces the computer to use the hard drive instead of the much faster RAM.
Thanks for the reply. I have 4 gigs in this baby. It's a Quad core q6600, with XP and 4 gigs (I know I can only use 3.4 of it, but I got the ram dirt cheap) and it's real good ram. OZ with heat spreaders. It works a lot better when I just let all the photos populate in BreezeBrowser and then sort through them, but if I just download them and start to view them it takes a while between each photo. It's weird.
Yes, I have this problem on tiffs. It is a new problem, same machine. It is not all the time tho and it has not happened lately so I did not shoot them an email about the problem. In fact I switched to PhotoMechanic and Bridge and they work fine. The whole thing is odd. Let me know if you talk to Breeze (Sue usually responds quickly) and what they say.
Version 1.7.3.1 has just been released. One change is that it stops the built-in debug code producing unwanted log files. Maybe that was the problem but I really don't know.
I am not talking memory leaks I am talking if I open immediately upon downloading files from my CF card. I highlight all files (say 100 or 1000 it doesn't matter) and I do a cntrl S for full screen it takes about 5 seconds to go inbetween each picture.
I figured out if i let them all "open" in the preview part of the screen and then highlight them and do a cntrl S then it goes faster but still not blazing fast like I would like it to. I want to be able to in less than a second look at a picture, press the up arrow to tag it, then press the right arrow to get to the next picture and it takes a couple seconds now.
Ryan, I went into file/preferences/image display and played with the main view image cache and slideshow image cache settings but they had no effect on the problem.
I did an experiment with the ctrl-S method that you described and I find that it works consistently well if I take about a second per image between pressing the right arrow key but if I try to do several in very quick succession then it bogs down. It seems that it takes a certain time to display an image, probably affected by the display processing such as the HQ mode, etc., but if you rush it then it abandons that image and moves onto the next. By the time you see an image it could be several images down the list.
So, if you go too slowly then you waste time. If you try to go too fast then you waste time, and if try the optimum speed then it works reasonably well. If that optimum speed for your system is still several seconds then maybe the problem is in the level of detail and processing that you are displaying.
