Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:35:41 -0600, Dale wrote:

> >> My temporary solution, I pointed it to a small directory that only
> >> has a couple dozen images in it.  That seems to work.   

> > Is there a difference in the metadata of these few images compared
> > with the rest in the whole directory?
> 
> It's actually a small directory of the exact same images.  I might add,
> the clock does skip a second or so when I add them so I suspect it
> performs the same action, it just has a much smaller number of them. 
> It's hard to say.  Point being, I'm using the same images as before,
> just a smaller sub-directory. 

Have  you tried using the smaller directory and then addng a few (hundred)
images at a time, letting the scan finish and then repeating.

I wonder is plasma is using a new method of caching the data, or the old
cache got corrupted, so it has to reindex the whole directory again. It's
never had to do 150000+ files in one go before because the directory has
grown organically. Now, for whatever reason, it seems like it is trying to
do the whole lot in one hit.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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