Digital Photo Professional incredibly slow

[gecastro]

Does anyone else have the problem that with more than 500 photos in the folder, DPP becomes almost unusable? I recently upgraded to the latest version, 4.19.10, and it seems even slower than the previous version.

[Waddizzle]

“ Hi, I want to share my solution that works already for years. DPP uses a sort of filesystem watcher that tracks the changes on disk so newly created folders (after importing new pictures) etc. are directly visible on screen. My Pictures folder has a lot subfolders (1 per shooting day), this is what slows down the application. “

You are correct about the potential for many subfolders. My solution was to change the default startup folder to a folder in my root directory. 

I only used the folder for downloads and editing.  Once I was done editing, I would move the files elsewhere. My strategy was to minimize the number of files DPP could see at any given time. 

[March411]

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@Waddizzle wrote:

My solution was to change the default startup folder to a folder in my root directory. 

I only used the folder for downloads and editing.  Once I was done editing, I would move the files elsewhere. My strategy was to minimize the number of files DPP could see at any given time. 

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+1 and it really speeds up the load time of images I am reviewing and culling.

[wq9nsc]

One of Windows many annoyances is the defaults it wants to use for file locations and worse is sometimes one of its frequent updates will reset your choice to Windows defaults.  And Windows file management is horrible, its bloated search system/updater in particular.

I have a DPP image file folder on one of the processor bus SSDs on my workstation and events are put into that folder as sub-directories by date.  Once I have finished processing, the RAW files get mirrored on an 8 TB regular "mechanical" drive in the PC and once a week the RAW files from the SSD get moved to pairs of 20 TB external mirrored drives which provide long-term backup at which point they get removed from both internal drives.  Once the files are temporarily on the processing SSD and the internal 8TB drive, I feel safe in removing the files from the camera cards.

I have been fortunate not to experience issues with a SS or regular drive but they are far from 100% reliable which is why I keep dual backups of important files and one set is kept in my university office.  I have spent a few days looking at different enterprise grade drives for the new system I have on order and the bottom line is they all fail and some at a very young age so dual backups are important.  The drives I use have "health" indicators and I have done one replacement of a pair of 1 TB SAS bus drives in my HP Z840 that were down to the 50% health range.

Rodger