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Tagging and Relinking Super Slow
DmitryB:
I'm having serious drag issues when 1) tagging music information (there is a massive delay between me typing and the text actually being entered) and then 2) if I rename or move the source folder and want to reconnect via F6 > Base Path Brose to find the newly renamed/moved folder. When I choose the hard drive folder and go into the general Music folder which contains all of my music in subfolders - it can take up to 2 mins for the folders to appear.
Any idea why such huge delays? Could it be the size of the library/amount of music? I do have a lot of albums and playlists. Is it just not able to keep this much info efficiently? Or is there something I can do to fix this?
I'm on a Mac Mini, the music is stored on an external G-Raid connected via USB-C.
JimH:
No idea.
If the RAID array is disconnected, what happens? You could set up a new "test" library.
What else is unusual about your setup?
blgentry:
On the Mac, if you have external drives connected, they will eventually go to sleep if you do not access them. So if you try to read files on a sleeping drive, there will be a delay.
But there's a more subtle effect also: Some programs, when you open a file choosing dialog, and choose a drive, the Mac decides that must wake ALL DRIVES before it can show you what you want. It wakes the drives one by one and waits for them. I've seen this behavior for several years. With multiple external drives, there can be a lengthy delay. Perhaps 45 to 60 seconds on my system.
That may or may not apply to you.
Brian.
DmitryB:
--- Quote from: JimH on July 25, 2023, 12:11:55 pm ---No idea.
If the RAID array is disconnected, what happens? You could set up a new "test" library.
What else is unusual about your setup?
--- End quote ---
I don't think there's anything else unusual, just that the music is on an external drive. (Which can't be that unusual??)
DmitryB:
--- Quote from: blgentry on July 25, 2023, 12:31:10 pm ---On the Mac, if you have external drives connected, they will eventually go to sleep if you do not access them. So if you try to read files on a sleeping drive, there will be a delay.
But there's a more subtle effect also: Some programs, when you open a file choosing dialog, and choose a drive, the Mac decides that must wake ALL DRIVES before it can show you what you want. It wakes the drives one by one and waits for them. I've seen this behavior for several years. With multiple external drives, there can be a lengthy delay. Perhaps 45 to 60 seconds on my system.
That may or may not apply to you.
Brian.
--- End quote ---
I don't think the "drive asleep" is an issue here because it happens even while I'm doing continuous tagging. I decided to reorganize some of my source folders and I'm doing a bunch of it non-stop, so there's not enough time for the external drive to fall asleep.
I thought maybe MC is just having a tough time processing info if the library gets too large? Or if there's a cache that's overwhelmed somewhere? I dunno, but it's frustrating!
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