| Re: Added New Index. System not happy about it [message #977 is a reply to message #976] |
Thu, 02 January 2020 10:20   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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> Mark Friedman wrote:
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> When I created an index for this, I got the (error?) message: Your index seems very slow to build (About 2 hours and 10 minutes remaining). There are 41,046 files and the system says it will take about 4 hours to index the content.
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> I don't know WHY it's going to take so long: There folder contains 95% images. Unless Foxtrot is reading the metadata for each image. Is it?
This is not an "error message", but an information message to let you read our FAQ regarding performance.
Sometimes the estimated time is wrong when indexing has just started (for example, if your external drive had to spin up…), so the final version will wait a bit longer that the estimation is more accurate, before displaying this message.
Did it actually take more than two hours to build your index? Yes, foxtrot reads the metadata for each image (unless if you have unchecked the "image" type in the "index contents of files" list), and the Spotlight metadata importer is quite slow processing some file types (large Photoshop files for sure, maybe some raw formats as well).
Jérôme - Foxtrot Engineering
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