Slow Ingest

[oliverjones]

Photo mechanic has recently slowed to a crawl while ingesting raws and also extracting jpegs. I have plenty of hard drive space and I am running High Sierra with the latest Photo Mechanic V5.

I hope you can please help?

[Kirk Baker]

Photo mechanic has recently slowed to a crawl while ingesting raws and also extracting jpegs. I have plenty of hard drive space and I am running High Sierra with the latest Photo Mechanic V5.

If you copy the files using the Finder, is the copy speed still slow?

-Kirk

[oliverjones]

Thanks Kirk

I just tested and PM transfers 12GB in 7m37s while finder takes 5m32s. What I don't understand is that in both cases the transfers starts off at a rapid pace of around 4 images per second, then at the half way point slows way down to around 1 image every 1 or 2 seconds.

I'm using the internal and reader and have plenty of drive space. Does any of this make any sense?

Thanks

[Kirk Baker]

Thanks Kirk

I just tested and PM transfers 12GB in 7m37s while finder takes 5m32s. What I don't understand is that in both cases the transfers starts off at a rapid pace of around 4 images per second, then at the half way point slows way down to around 1 image every 1 or 2 seconds.

I'm using the internal and reader and have plenty of drive space. Does any of this make any sense?

Not really, though High Sierra has been one of Apple's most bug-ridden macOS releases.  So I wouldn't be surprised if this were another problem with the new OS.  The new APFS file system has had some heinous bugs in it, for instance.

-Kirk