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Best practice for 100GB folders for fast viewing

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January 25, 2023
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I have a work that forces me to browse through +100GB or images or tenss of thousands.

Each time I open up one the folders on my computers, the applications freezes and become almost unresponsive.

I want to be able to switly browse the photos and find the ones I need, select to save and delete etc.

I have a brand new mac studio with 1TB drive and I have thunderbolt 16TB raid drive.

Any advices would be highly apprecieted. Thanks!

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kavemanoAuthor

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I decided to try a competitor and I have had better result whith generating preview and just scrolling through the material. Really dissapointed with how slow bridge worked, with my new mac studio in comparison with my old 2013 Mac Pro, more or less the same speed or should I say lack of speed.

gary_sc

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Hi @kavemano, I have a couple of questions to narrow things down.

First off, have you given Apple's permission for Bridge to access these various locations? (If you haven't, I can supply the easy information on how to do that.)

I've heard mixed reports as to how well Bridge works with raid drives. Some people cannot use them; others say there's no problem. I do not know if it has to do with the platform, the OS, the connection, etc. You may wish to try placing some images on a standard hard drive and see if you have any better luck. I've never owned a raid drive, so I cannot test or confirm.

How many images are in any given folder you open? What is the general maximum that one can/should have within a folder is hard to predict because of differences in file size, image type, number of layers, etc. etc. I did see one fellow who had over 30,000 images in a folder and was not happy when told that that might be too many. (How anyone can FIND anything in a folder of 30,000 images is beyond me.)

Do you have your thumbnail settings set as this? If not, please try this.

Let us know the answers to these questions and if any of the suggestions did anything to your speed.

(For the record, I have a Mac Studio Pro with a 1 TB drive attached to three external drives (each four TB), I've 64 GB ram, and things run very sweet.)

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kavemanoAuthor

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Thanks for responding so quick!

I have those settings, they seem to be default. I have tried to use the internal drive and I dont seem to run into the same problems. It works as a solutio for now, lets just hope I dont runt out of space on the internal drive.

I also have the 64BG ram, seem like we have the same setup then.

What about the other settings, like hardware vs software rendering and generate monitor size previews? Do you thing the would make it run faster?

gary_sc

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Yup, 64 GB as well.

Settings: take the recommended. That's why they're recommended.

Drive access: I have almost all of my images* on one of my 4 TB drives. It's a 7200 rpm drive. I also keep all my important papers on that drive as well. This is backed up to a 2nd 4 TB drive via ChronoSync. I have one more 4 TB drive I used for Time Machine. I also have my computer and the initial 4 TB drive saved to a cloud service (BackBlaze). (Backup drives are GREAT for when hard drives fail, they do not do squat if your house burns down.)

If you can afford SSDs, that may or may not be great due to how much data can go through the wires; my use of spinning hard drives seems OK, but nothing like what you're going through. I see it most when I open a folder I've not opened in a long time in Lightroom Classic.

If the standard hard drive works for you, you might consider using the NAID drive as your backup drive. The finder can access it fine (I assume??). Bridge does have issues with speed due to the way it deals with accessing any raw data, color profile issues, etc. It's hard to explain to folks who expect it to present images as fast as viewers that just look at the jpg version of the file.

*The images that haven't been moved to my external drive is because they haven't gotten there yet. Some of my projects demand that they are in front of me.

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