When I start digikam before starting the NAS where the photos are stored, digikam spends hours working before I can see albums,

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I have about 120,000 photo files on HDDs in a Synology NAS. The digikam database is on an SSD, over 3 GB for the thumbnails.

If I start the NAS before starting digikam on the PC (64bits, Pro, Win 11 v21H2), I can see all the photos almost straight away. HOWEVER, occasionally I forget to start the NAS before starting digikam on the PC, in which case, as far as I can tell, digikam seems to re-check the databases (even though no photos have been changed/added/deleted) and this process takes hours.

Is there any way to prevent this happening? (other than, obviously, ensuring that the NAS is up and running before digikam starts).

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Hi @BSOH,
You can try turning off scanning at startup.

Go to Settings->Miscellaneous, and uncheck “Scan for new items at startup”

Cheers,
Mike

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Thanks, Mike, that sounds like it should do the trick. I’m new to digiKam but greatly enjoying it, especially the geolocation tools - another way of organising and retrieving photos.