Indexing taking forever

Laurits

I have around 50,000 photos, and some degree of videos on there. It keep saying 20 minutes remaining, when the “scan videos” is turned off. When videos are turned on, it keeps saaying 22+ hours remaining.

And when I open the app, it keeps asking if it should “import” my content from my hard drives. What does import mean, within the context of this app? If I have already set library locations to be folders on these drives, why would I want to click import? What does it do? And it asks every time I open the app. If I click ‘yes’, I get an error, eventually.

Andrey

Laurits Do I get right, that your photos are on the external USB drive? Tonfotos uses windows WIA technology to work with external storages like phones and cameras. For some reason this technology mistakes some external drives with phones sometimes. I have a theory that it only mistakes it when there are certain folders on those drives like DCIM for example.

When Windows tells Tonfotos there is another multimedia device attached to your PC, Tonfotos would bring up this popup and offer you import. Import means copying all new files (starting from certain date) to your main archive that is localted somewhere else. I assume this drive is your main archive so there is no point in import for you.

All you need to do is to tell Tonfotos to never ask this question for this device again, that will solve the problem.

Laurits

Yeah my photos are absolutely on external drives. My desktop has 2TB SSD storage, and my laptop has 1 TB SSD. I can’t be keeping 2 TB of photos installed on my internal drives. They’re not in a DCIM folder, or at least I do not think so. When I have tried importing photos with a cable from my iPhone, I have seen a DCIM folder, but not recently.
One thiing that can be happening, is that I have before loaded all of my photos from my phone, to my hard drives. I could possibly have copied-pasted that folder into my external drives, and now it’s still a DCIM? I know nothing about them, I thought it was just a folder name.

Yeah okay, then I definitely do not want to import. I was wondering if import in this case was the same as indexing. I think I hit import once, so I assume there are a bunch of files somewhere now that I need to delete?

Andrey

Laurits I think I hit import once, so I assume there are a bunch of files somewhere now that I need to delete?

That depends where you were importing to. In any case you can use duplicates feature of Tonfotos to deal with it.