Odd behavior cropped up last night...

[vasha]

I am seeing some strange behavior with Photo Mechanic, which started last night. I'm on PM 4.6.8 and MacOS X 10.7.2 on a Late 2008 MacBook Pro 2.54GHz/4GB of RAM and an internal 200GB SSD hard disk.
1) I drop a folder of images on the PM icon in the dock and it takes more than ten minutes to open ... 2) I open something in the window (via Navigator bar) after opening a new window and it takes multiple minutes to load.

It took 14min to open a folder of 200 RAW CR2 files that I dropped on the icon to launch the window. And it took 8 min to open another folder from the navigator bar on a fresh window (after the nav bar took 5 min to open a folder so I could drill down to a picture-filled folder.

Adding to the strangeness: Once I have a folder open over the prolonged wait from either of the above approaches, the next folder I open via navigator takes 1/2 seconds.

Tested mostly on an external Drobo on FW800 but also saw similar results on folders on my internal SSD which is lightning fast.

I have reinstalled the App and trashed the preference file. No improvement.

Any thoughts?

[Luiz Muzzi]

Maybe it is something related to your cache size...
HTH

-Luiz Muzzi

[Hayo Baan]

Like Luiz suggest this may have to do with he cache. Locate your disk cache and delete all the files there.

Hope this helps,
Hayo Baan

[Kirk Baker]

Vasha,

I am seeing some strange behavior with Photo Mechanic, which started last night. I'm on PM 4.6.8 and MacOS X 10.7.2 on a Late 2008 MacBook Pro 2.54GHz/4GB of RAM and an internal 200GB SSD hard disk.
1) I drop a folder of images on the PM icon in the dock and it takes more than ten minutes to open ... 2) I open something in the window (via Navigator bar) after opening a new window and it takes multiple minutes to load.

It took 14min to open a folder of 200 RAW CR2 files that I dropped on the icon to launch the window. And it took 8 min to open another folder from the navigator bar on a fresh window (after the nav bar took 5 min to open a folder so I could drill down to a picture-filled folder.

Adding to the strangeness: Once I have a folder open over the prolonged wait from either of the above approaches, the next folder I open via navigator takes 1/2 seconds.

Tested mostly on an external Drobo on FW800 but also saw similar results on folders on my internal SSD which is lightning fast.

I have reinstalled the App and trashed the preference file. No improvement.

Any thoughts?

No.  For this sort of thing I recommend contacting our support folks directly:  support@camerabits.com or 503-547-2888

-Kirk