Slow RAW thumbnail generation

I run RPD in Ubuntu for a long time, but one thing that annoys me is the thumbnail generation takes a long time, in my case is generating Fujifilm RAF files.

Sometimes it’s really isn’t a big deal, because I just want to import everything and don’t care about the thumbnails, but whenever I really need to use the Timeline I have to wait quite a long time for the thumbnails to get generated.

Is there any thing that can be done to speed this up? I already disabled the Systems Thumbnails generation, because generation on Nautilus is actually very snappy (I’m using raf-thumbnailer).

If you are downloading directly from a camera over USB, it is usually faster to download using a decent memory card reader.

If you are already using a memory card reader, then that indicates something could be going wrong somewhere. It’s impossible to say without knowing more details.