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Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - jaleh - 04-18-2021
Hi,
I used to use Gimp on linux for more than ten years. But since working on a windows computer (which is way better eqipped than my old linux laptop) loading and especially exporting pictures to jpg is excruciating slow. Opening a jpg takes 7 seconds. When I export it to jpg it takes 5 seconds for the window to appear that asks me if I want to compress it and so forth and after that it's another 12 seconds before the little window disappears and the file has been saved.
This also happened with the gimp version before this one.
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - rich2005 - 04-18-2021
Keep checking here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5705
Hopefully the developers will come up with an answer.
question:
What size the jpegs ?
Are you opening / exporting the jpegs from a local disk or external storage or network / cloud storage ?
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - jaleh - 04-18-2021
(04-18-2021, 02:10 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Keep checking here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5705
Hopefully the developers will come up with an answer.
question:
What size the jpegs ?
Are you opening / exporting the jpegs from a local disk or external storage or network / cloud storage ?
Thank you, I have already posted my problem there, too.
BTW your questions showed up only when I hit reply, in your original post I can't see them.
The jpgs I open are about 5500x3500 pixels and 4.5 MB, and the ones I exported are somewhat smaller, 2500x2000 and a little over 1 MB. They come from my second internal harddisk (a regular one) and are exported to my local Dropbox folder on C: which is an SSD. Opening the same jpgs with any other program takes less than a second, and saving it, too, e.g. with Windows Paint 3D.
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - rich2005 - 04-18-2021
I wonder if it is the Windows non-existent floppy drive issue ? Can you disable in the Windows computer bios ?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/913
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - jaleh - 04-18-2021
(04-18-2021, 02:44 PM)rich2005 Wrote: I wonder if it is the Windows non-existent floppy drive issue ? Can you disable in the Windows computer bios ?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/913
No, I don't think so. First of all that user described that loading images via file explorer is faster which it isn't for me. But I checked my bios anyway and found only starting devices that are actually there: my ssd, my hdd, dvd drive and then a few others.
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - rich2005 - 04-18-2021
Follow on from end of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/913
Seems an improvement with the latest Windows Gimp 2.10.24 installer. see: https://twitter.com/paperrealms/status/1382318734396784640
...but I do not know about the slow export. Dropbox slow to sync ?
I use linux and do not use dropbox. Maybe a Windows user will come along with suggestions.
There was a similar post here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Slow-file-access?pid=17684#pid17684
RE: Loading and exporting images is very slow on Windows - jaleh - 04-18-2021
I had the same idea with the update even before you posted it, and now it's really fast! I hope it stays that way - unfortunately, when I updated to the previous version it seemed to be somewhat faster, too, but later got very slow.
However, thank you so much for taking the time to help me!