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Tech assistance with Photo Mechanic
Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 10:02 PM on 01.03.10 |
| ->> Hey all, I have a Mac Pro 2x2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 6GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM and every time I open a new contact sheet in Photo Mechanic it literally takes for ever for it to allow me to do any work on photos. It's really slow and lags. Anyone have any ideas? I know it's a tough call when your not here to diagnose but I'm hoping it's something easy. Thanks!! |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 10:15 PM on 01.03.10 |
| ->> Nick while not 'forever' I have had PM take a while for it to open a contact sheet. I have found that setting the preferences to open the contact pages sorted by filename over capture time or any other metric sped things up by orders of magnitude. This is even the case on my i7 8 core windows box. |
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Derek Montgomery, Photographer
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Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 10:29 PM on 01.03.10 |
->> Nick,
I think I might be experiencing something similar. By chance, do you have external hard drives connected to your computer and mounted to your desktop? The reason I ask is because when I open a contact sheet, it almost sounds like the drives power up even though they are on and then after 30 seconds or so, the contact sheet appears. I have a Mac Pro with lots of RAM and it should not be taking that long considering my laptop boots a contact sheet in Photo Mechanic in half the time with a quarter of the RAM.
Perhaps the lag is connected to the presence of external hard drives and opening a contact sheets forces them to wake up thus taking the extra time? That's my theory.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks. |
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Matthew Bush, Photographer
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Hattiesburg | MS | USA | Posted: 1:43 AM on 01.04.10 |
->> Nick-How do you have PM rendering your thumbnails ? You might also want to try using a program to clean the caches and fix the file permissions, pre-bindings and ect. It might not help but it probably will not hurt
Derek- is the drive tagged as one of your favorite locations on the left hand side of PM ? If so there is a way to remove it from favorites that should fix the problem. Mine used to do this with one of our external drives. |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston & Houston | TX | US | Posted: 1:46 AM on 01.04.10 |
->> What version of OS X and what version of Photo Mechanic?
Under "Preferences - Caching" what do you have for "Disk cache size" and "Memory cache size"? |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 2:12 AM on 01.04.10 |
| ->> 4.6.1. Cashe size is 512 and reserve is 100 |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 2:43 AM on 01.04.10 |
| ->> OSX is 10.7.5 |
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Dan Megna, Photographer
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Coronado | CA | USA | Posted: 11:52 AM on 01.04.10 |
->> Three weeks ago I loaded my original version of PM on my new iMac i5 and experienced similar problems. I too tried removing external drives.... Plus, when I tried my new Lexar 800 card reader it took 2 or 3 minutes to ingest only a handful of images.
All problems disappeared however when I downloaded PM 4.6.2.1.
I'd check for an update from PM. |
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Jeff Kowalsky, Photographer
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West Bloomfield | MI | United States | Posted: 12:22 PM on 01.04.10 |
->> I would contact CameraBits tech support via their forums. Kirk has always been real fast in replying to problems and requests.
http://forums.camerabits.com/ |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston & Houston | TX | US | Posted: 3:29 PM on 01.04.10 |
->> Nick what is your "Memory cache size" set at? In my experience that is where you'll really see a difference in speed.
It also probably wouldn't hurt to upgrade to the latest version of PM, 4.6.2.1 or OS X 10.5.8 for that matter.
And of course Jeff is right, you'll get the great support over at the Camera Bits forums. |
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Bryan Hulse, Photographer
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Nashville | Tn | USA | Posted: 9:40 PM on 01.04.10 |
| ->> I have the same issues with raw photos but not jpg. Is it all photos, or just raw? |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 9:52 PM on 01.04.10 |
->> Camera Bits is still having issues with Snow Leopard, so if you haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard yet and use Photo Mechanic, don't do it.
I made the mistake of loading snow leopard and thought upgrading to the latest version of Photomechanic would solve the slow ingests I have been having issues with, but it is still taking 20 minutes to download 2gb of an 8gb card in the field.
I'm using a 2.8ghz Macbook Pro, Sandisk FW800 reader and Sandisk Extreme IV CF cards. Strangely I get faster downloads when I'm connected to a power source, but still painfully slow.
I contacted Camera Bits and was told they are working with Apple to solve the slow ingest problem. |
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Michael Durisseau, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Fe/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 10:04 PM on 01.04.10 |
| ->> What might be the ideal sizes for memory cache and disk cache? OS X 10.5.8, 2GB of RAM on a MacBook... |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston & Houston | TX | US | Posted: 2:51 AM on 01.05.10 |
| ->> Brian, I haven't had the slow ingest issue since upgrading to the 4.6.2.2 beta releases. Are you still having trouble with the current beta or are you still on 4.6.2.1? |
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Ray Anderson, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 6:57 AM on 01.05.10 |
| ->> I have had trouble with PM ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 5:37 PM on 01.05.10 |
| ->> Kevin, I'm using 4.6.2.1 and downloaded it December, 9. I have not tried the Beta, but I'll check it out thanks! |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston & Houston | TX | US | Posted: 6:28 PM on 01.05.10 |
->> Here is the link to the latest beta version of 4.6.2.2:
http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=5002.0
My biggest complain at this point is spell check doesn't work properly but this is apparently a problem on Apple's end that will hopefully be fixed in the next OS update. |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 9:36 AM on 01.10.10 |
| ->> For what its worth I am having mixed results with the Beta. Last night I ingested 5 gb of an 8gb card in about 5 minutes and shortly after that it took me 40 minutes to ingest 4gb of an 8gb card. I re-ingested the same card this morning and it took about 4 minutes. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 9:14 PM on 01.10.10 |
| ->> The folks over at Photo Mechanic are pretty awesome. It was a simple setting in the preference tab and now I'm up to speed. Thank you everyone for your assistance. |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 10:27 PM on 01.10.10 |
| ->> What was the Setting? Let us in. |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 12:55 PM on 02.01.10 |
->> Just wanted to share, there is a new PhotoMechanic Beta that seems to have cured ingest issues with Snow Leopard.
http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=5107.0
I just tried it out and it seems to be working great! |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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WorldWide Global | ALL | Terra Firma | Posted: 1:39 PM on 02.01.10 |
->> Sorry I got so excited I forgot to come back and post!!
Default sorting method: Filename (You can set this on the Contact Sheet tab of the Preferences dialog)
Disk cache size: 1024
Reserve at least: 100
Memory cache size: 768 |
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Tim Vizer, Photographer
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Belleville | IL | USA | Posted: 9:45 PM on 02.18.10 |
->> You can now update to 4.6.3 (not a beta) and it resolves the ingest issue with Snow Leopard. I also was having the slow ingests after I upgraded the OS on my MBP.
Funny though, it was an inconsistent issue, usually happening when I was ingesting my second or third cards....Never noticed a problem on first card ingestion! Go figure. Particularly s-l-o-w when ingesting RAW files, and I was about to go back to JPEGs when I saw your post here.
Anyhow, I upgraded a few minutes ago, I'll check it in the real world this weekend. |
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Tim Vizer, Photographer
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Belleville | IL | USA | Posted: 10:59 PM on 02.18.10 |
->> Okay, the new Photo Mechanic version, 4.6.3, has solved any ingesting problem I had with Snow Leopard. What a difference.
I just ingested two cards (from a recent shoot) back-to-back, Lexar 4GB UDMA 300X speed CF cards, in a Lexar card reader, connected via FW 800 to my MBP. I just ingested 865 RAW files with full captions and templated IPTC data in under three minutes. Way, way faster than I was getting before.
It appears that Camera Bits has fixed whatever issue there was with ingesting via the Snow Leopard OS by making available the new version update. Thanks much!
Tim |
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