PSPX7 indexing pics on opening program

[JoeB]

PSPX7 is now taking many minutes to open, with the rotating busy circle in evidence.

I think the problem is this. I placed several thousand images into one folder and added that folder to Collections in the Manage pane. It is the only thing I have in Collections and I have never used collections before and was just experimenting. Since doing so, it takes about 5 minutes or so each time I open X7 before I can use the program, so it seems to me that the program is having to index all of those thousands of images each time I open the program. Other than as stated I have not made any other changes in my use of PSPX7.

1) Do you think the problem is caused by my adding all of the images in this folder as a collection?

2) If so, shouldn't PSP simply index once and then not have to do so again? Is there a way to prevent it from checking if there are any changes to that folder and/or re-indexing if that's what's happening?

3) If the above isn't the issue, does anyone else have a suggestion as to what is?

[MarkZ]

Joe, I've been using Collections for many years and find that it sames me time and makes it easier to search for what I want. I have folders that are current and ones I use most often there, with thousands of files in them; X8 and previous versions have started quickly after the initial index. Currently at least one folder has over a thousand files.

Have you tried removing this folder from Collections and checking startup time? Easy to remove and reintroduce folders in Collections.

[JoeB]

Have you tried removing this folder from Collections and checking startup time? Easy to remove and reintroduce folders in Collections.

After comparing the Collections folder pane in X7 and X8 I noticed that X7 had 2 drives in the folder tree (my system drive and an external USB drive) but they aren't in X8. So I right clicked the USB drive folder in X7 and selected Do Not Catalog. As a result the rotating busy icon would not go away and Windows finally said it had to close PSP. After doing so I tried again with the same result.

So I reset PSPX7. Those drives still show in the Collections. PSP will eventually open but it takes over 5 minutes to do so and for the busy icon to go away. Plus the program runs slow once it does start.

Unless someone can suggest a quick fix I will have to try a complete uninstall and reinstall.

[Forriner]

Before you reinstall, maybe try renaming or deleting the image/collections database and building a new one, new collections?
In Windows 10 and 7, you should find it in system drive\users\your username\appdata\local\corel paintshop pro\17.0\database\imagedb.db
17.0 is the PSP version number.
You may also want to or have to get rid of the existing thumbnails, which are stored in the \17.0\thumbs folder, one sub-folder for each catalogues folder in the database, now including the "missing" USB drive.

[JoeB]

Before you reinstall, maybe try renaming or deleting the image/collections database and building a new one, new collections?
In Windows 10 and 7, you should find it in system drive\users\your username\appdata\local\corel paintshop pro\17.0\database\imagedb.db
17.0 is the PSP version number.
You may also want to or have to get rid of the existing thumbnails, which are stored in the \17.0\thumbs folder, one sub-folder for each catalogues folder in the database, now including the "missing" USB drive.

That did the trick! Now it opens in 21 seconds. Thanks!

[Ken Berry]

Which parts? Or all of it?

[JoeB]

Which parts? Or all of it?

All of it. I first renamed the database extension to .db_OLD - it was only 46mb. Then I deleted every sub-folder (there were lots of them) in the Thumbs folder. There were over 1300 folders and I think the total file size was about 300mb but can't remember. Just opened X7 again and it took 34 seconds. The new rebuilt database is presently 56kb. Reloaded my saved workspace and things seem fine. Not as speedy opening as some but a massive improvement over the issue I started with!