Can I stop DPP from looking at all my images on 4 TB of internal SSD ?

[mangurian]

I work extensively with my images and when I start DPP it usually takes a very long time before I stop getting a "busy" cursor.  Once it is finished doing whatever it's doing (updating a database ?) everything works smoothly.  I have one "working" directory for images.  Is there any way to have DPP just look at where I work ?

Thanks

[wq9nsc]

When you say one directory, are you just putting your current working files in it or do you keep previous files in it also?

For DPP, if you don't set a default directory then it will go to the last directory used.  I have a "dummy" directory that DPP is set to use with 1 file in it as a placeholder so it doesn't waste any time and I set this as the directory to always use at start.  Then I direct it where I want it.

Then my current working files are on one of the "Z drives" in my HP workstation, the Z drive is a SSD directly on the processor bus so it provides the best performance.  But the only files in that directory are the current files, all previous files get archived to 8 terabyte external drives for storage.  The exception is files that are from within the last two weeks stay on fast SSD drives but on the regular Thunderbolt bus so access isn't quite as fast as the Z drive but it gives me easy access to very recent files that I sometimes need to update a just completed event.

With this setup, DPP is ready to go within 5 seconds after I launch the app (I just checked it).

Hope this helps!

Rodger

[March411]

Open DPP and hit Ctrl+K to open preferences....

or

Go to Tools, at the bottom of the drop down choose preferences. The first tab is general settings, the top selection is the startup folder, select specified folder and set it to an empty directory. Once DPP opens you point it to the directory you want to work out of without waiting for everything on the drive to load. My music folder is empty (loaded on an external drive), that's loads DPP in seconds.