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Author Topic: Import Media Files - All Local Drives  (Read 933 times)

Ingo

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Import Media Files - All Local Drives
« on: June 11, 2003, 02:05:28 pm »

ok.... this might be at least partly insane..... but I just tried to do it.....

- it hangs on me cmos.ram file (c:\window\system32\cmos.ram)
even 'cancel' doesn't work (winxp-pro, German)
- it hangs when trying to import only partly downloaded (progressive) .gif files. (sorry, allready deleted them... irfanview, xnview showed them.... partly)

and now the insane part.....
I have a folder on my C:\ drive that holds around 140,000 pictures and probably the same amount of .html files. .... (hey, this is a complete archive of the last 10 years of Germany's best computer magazine ct' and I don't want to change cds....)

Importing All Local Drives (including this folder.....) and playing around with MC created a Thumbnails folder holding 15,000 files ('only' 39 MB) ....
Importing All Local Drives again... imported these 15,000 .jpg files....
MC is realy starting to crawl when dealing with a 26MB database holding around 150,000 files ....

ok... that's what I did and what happend.... now my suggestions:

- don't import MC's thumbnails folder(s) (at least not by default)
- add a list of folders to _ex_clude from import.

Ingo

p.s.: ok...  or speed up the database to make not it crawl with 150,000 .gif files ;-)
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