Typically, I submit images as SOOC jpg’s, and this time my camera of choice was my Fuji X100f. I don’t PP any of the images, but download the jpg’s from the camera to an Android tablet. From there, I posted to chosen image of the day to cameraderie.
All went well, and now it’s to migrate the images from the SD card to my NAS drive.
I’ve done this numerous times before in RPD, but never for 2600 images.
The first issue I’ve run into is it’s telling me the Timeline needs to be rebuilt because the file modification time does not match the time a shot was taken for one or more shots.
I have no idea whatsoever how to do this, and without the timeline, importing the issues is a real challenge.
The second issue is the generation of thumbnails has stalled at 39%.
Typically, I import images based upon the day taken and a descriptor. So for this tranche of images, there will be > 30 groups of images saved to my hard drive.
Again, without good thumbnails, this gets really difficult.
I’m running RPD on an Elementary OS desktop computer with 16Gb of ram and discrete AMD video card if that makes any difference. The EOS is v7.1 which is an Ubuntu 22.04 variant.
Any guidance that could be provided would be appreciated.
I will start with I don’t use RPD, so my advise will be limited.
I would start with two different test. One is to just copy the images from SD to local HD using RPD. Does it give you problems? Second test, just copy images from SD to NAS without using RPD.
If not, then explore the PC to NAS protocol. Maybe upgrading your OS can help too.
At this point, I’ve trudged through and am through the ingest. RPD did get better behaved as I progressed through the process. As I progressed through the process, the timeline was no longer inop, and the previews completed. Having the timeline available made this significantly easier and less error prone.
I’ve never had an issue copying images to my NAS before, although that was a Windows box.
Doing a raw copy from the OS to the NAS, the process completed without issue in some 37 minutes for the 75Gb of files.
The OS on the desktop will get updated in due course. It’s not something I jump into willy nilly. As mentioned in the OP, I’m using EOS v7.1 on this desktop. Unfortunately, EOS upgrades require a complete reinstall. Rather than doing a complete reinstall of EOS on this box, I’m going to install Pop!_OS COSMIC as soon as the Beta is released. I’m currently running COSMIC ALPHA on a laptop and it’s been great.
The video copy issue was due to malformed settings on my end. I didn’t notice that there were different configs for photos and videos.