Re: 1000+ file project load times?

Thanks for that - I hadn't realised that option was there.
regards
Simon

On Friday 23 May 2008 09:08, Peter Ford wrote:
> There is an easier way to add one file (or a small number of files) to the
> project - open the Files view, navigate to the file in question, right
> click and select "Insert in project..."
>
> I generally use that when adding an image to the project, even though my
> projects are rarely more than 100 or so files. There are usually so many
> 'junk' files (testing fragments, log files, etc.) in the project area on my
> dev machine that I end up having to uncheck most of the things that "Rescan
> Project Folder" picks up...
>
> Simon Dawson wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This may be getting off the original topic but I agree that the Project
> > Management cold be revised....although I'm not sure whether Niko's
> > 'automatic' idea is the way forward.
> >
> > Maybe we would be better served having 'Scan Project folder...' in all
> > places throughout the project tree and not just at root level.
> >
> > My work methods mean that I may add one new image file into the directory
> > structure somewhere. Getting that file into the Quanta project means the
> > whole project needs to be scanned...can't we scan just a selected folder
> > instead?
> >
> > I think either way would be an improvement, although the automatic way
> > may be more resource intensive!
> >
> > Other than that, Quanta is great - thanks Eric for leading and Andras for
> > all your hard work.
> >
> > regards
> > Simon
> >
> > On Friday 23 May 2008 06:46, Niko Sams wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i use large projects too...
> >>
> >>> are there any users here with projects files in this size who can offer
> >>> feedback on your start up times with this size project? Specifically
> >>> I'm curious if your are experincing normal load times expected in
> >>> seconds or abnormal load times in minutes. Please post your CPU, RAM
> >>> distribution and KDE/Quanta version. Thanks!
> >>
> >> find . | grep -v .svn | wc -l
> >> 10488
> >>
> >> the bigges part is one subfolder with 9301 files - that one I ignored
> >> in the project.
> >> Sadly I can't use upload profiles for those.
> >>
> >> With this setup loading the project takes about 5secs.
> >>
> >> But what takes really a long time is scanning for new files in the
> >> project: 2:10 min
> >> Luckily this I don't have to do very often.
> >>
> >> Quanta 3.5.9
> >> KDE 3.5.9
> >> Gentoo
> >> Core2 duo 1,8GHz
> >> 3 GB Ram
> >> Files mounted via smb (has not that much effect tough - was locally
> >> about that fast too)
> >>
> >>
> >> What *I* think that could be improved (for Quanta4) is the way project
> >> files are handled:
> >> - no adding files to the project
> >> - no project file with an entry for every individual project file
> >> - user specifys a project directory, an ignore mask and that's it
> >> - quanta should automatically detect new files and show them
> >>
> >>
> >> Niko
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