Performance tweaks for lots of photos?

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In case anyone else views this topic:

I noticed in recent testing that Chrome is 2-10x faster at rendering thumbnails than Firefox, at least on Linux. It pains me to say this, but you might want to try Chrome.

I’ve also made some front-end performance improvements to image loading in the latest v1.0.0-beta builds (we’re now using the browser-native lazy image loader if we’re not on safari), which seems to have helped as well.

There’s also a new advanced system setting to host your .photostructure/previews directory on a separate SSD: I just wrote this up here:

Hybrid PhotoStructure libraries

PhotoStructure offers a lot of flexibility with how you lay out your photos and videos. Initial library setup When you’re initially setting up PhotoStructure, you can set up the following: You can put your library directory on either a local or remote filesystem (if you’re on Windows, though, map your network drive to a letter first: heavy disk I/O against UNC paths can be flaky) You can choose to leave your existing photos and videos where they are already, or automatically organize t…