How to speed up the Ingest with a Lexar workflow hub

[dmdeckbar]

Hi there at camera bits,

I am on 10.11.6 with 32GB RAM an PM5 build 17338. My reader is a Lexar Workflow Hub.
Sometimes the ingest with more cards is getting really slow.
I get a lot - Getting Sort Data or Filtering.

What is the best setting to improve the speed - Should the selector set on Filename or Capture Time or what is best

The is a mistake in my workflow !!!

Best Dirk

[Kirk Baker]

Dirk,

I am on 10.11.6 with 32GB RAM an PM5 build 17338. My reader is a Lexar Workflow Hub.
Sometimes the ingest with more cards is getting really slow.
I get a lot - Getting Sort Data or Filtering.

What is the best setting to improve the speed - Should the selector set on Filename or Capture Time or what is best

Filename sort is the fastest sort type by far.  If you do renaming during ingest and use the {tims} (time sort} variable as the start of your filename, then Filename sorting will be equivalent to Capture Time sorting, but will be much faster.

HTH,

-Kirk

[dmdeckbar]

Thanks a lot Kirk !

I upgraded to the newest build, now ! What are the best settings in the prefs for the caching ?

And what is about the location of the disk cache ? I am on on iMac with fusion drive ( there is the cache now )

Should I put it on the SSD connected with Thunderbolt where my Lightroomlibrary lives

All the best from Berlin

Dirk

[Kirk Baker]

Dirk,

I upgraded to the newest build, now ! What are the best settings in the prefs for the caching ?

The defaults should be fine.

And what is about the location of the disk cache ? I am on on iMac with fusion drive ( there is the cache now )

Should I put it on the SSD connected with Thunderbolt where my Lightroomlibrary lives

The faster the read/write access the better.  Choose the disk with the fastest access.  Then make sure that Spotlight doesn't index the folder that you use as your PM cache.

-Kirk

[dmdeckbar]

Great fast support ! Like always !

Best Dirk