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

[samarak]

"I wish you the best but my suggestion is simplify first, get confident in basic usage, then consider something more complicated."

Thanks, SignifDigits, but I've been using this beast a long time and my setup can't get much simpler. If you'll read my previous posts, you'll see that the only thing people have consistently suggested that I wasn't doing was to start DPP in an empty directory - I was starting it in a non-empty, but very small working direrctory, just 32 items. I never started it in a large directory. I never used it to browse files - I use other things and copy just the files I want to work with to my working directory, and then start DPP.

As a coder for many years, I still can't see why it would make any difference whether DPP is started in an empty directory, or one with very few files. When you switch from your empty startup directory to the working directory, it still has to do exactly the same things it would have done if started in the working directory - enumerate files and see which are images, load thumbnails, set up file system change notification, etc. Even a really bad coder should not be able to screw that up so that worked differently in those two situations - not only would it be stupid, it would be extra work. But anything is possible, lots of you say it works for you, it's easy, and I'm so tired of this that I'm going to try it. 

Steve

Steve

[yesinmorse]

You can configure Digital Photo Professional (DPP) to only index your specific "working" folder by adjusting the Auto-Update and Startup settings in the Preferences menu.

By disabling the "Auto-Update" of all folders and setting your preferred directory as the default startup path, you prevent the software from scanning your entire 4 TB SSD.

You can find more detailed patterns and technical guides at morse code numbers.

[samarak]

Hi yesinmorse - maybe I'm just blind but I can't find that Auto-Update setting. Nor can I find any reference to it in the latest PDF version of the DPP manual I can find, which unfortunately is 4.15. The online version is up to date but doesn't seem to be fully searchable or indexed, and I couldn't find any reference to Auto-Update in the section on Preferences. Can you throw me a clue please? It sounds like what I want. (I already have a startup directory defined.)

Thanks,

Steve