Building Thumbnails

[MikeNaylor]

Is there a way to prevent PSu re-Building Thumbnails for no apparent reason? Every time this happens (which seems to be every time I click on anything), the program become unresponsive and I have to wait a very long time till it finishes.

[fbungarz]

The program builds thumbnails and previews only once. Though building the thumbs takes little time, generating the previews may take a long time depending on your settings in preferences >> catalog. the higher the quality & resolution, the longer it may take until all previews are built. A higher quality allows yo to take PSu "on the road", i.e., without having to carry along the images themselves.
If you experience slow-downs, likely you have some demanding settings in your preferences. I have the resolution at 1280 and 85% quality.

If you initially have thousands and thousands of files for which the previews have not been generated it will slow you down a lot. Once all the previews have been built it no longer should be an issue. It is a problem when you start with thousands of images from scratch and load them all into PSu at once. It may take days for the thumbnail/preview database to build. Then, if you routinely import smaller batches it no longer is an issue.

[Hert]

Frank is spot on.
In addition; after making many changes to the Catalog, make sure to Compact the database. Make a habit of doing that about once every week.

[MikeNaylor]

The only things I'd clicked on, have imported 400 images and waited for the build to complete, were to select between various panels and inspecting various metadata. I did not change or edit anything and the preferences were as per the default having only just installed it. This was a fresh install, but it quickly became obvious because of coastal RE-Building and spinning balls. It may well be 64 bit, but it's certainly not mufti-threading as one would expect.

[Hert]

Do you have ICS reading on or off in the preferences-sync-read settings?