I got a new SSD for my D: drive. I renamed the old one X and the new one D:
I moved the image files which Imatch knows about over. So the image files are still on D: but on a different physical drive.
Now Imatch does not recognize the files. If I try relocate from D: to D: it will not work - seems to hang (I gave up after 10 minutes).
How do I correctly relocate?
This is explained in the help.
Just relocate to the same drive. IMatch picks up the new drive serial number and bring your images on-line.
I tried relocate from D: to D:
How long should this take? It did not show much progress after 10 minutes - so I gave up.
Just tried here. Took a few seconds for a 50K database.
Does IMatch consume CPU or disk resources (Task Manager)?
You can also check the log file and see what IMatch is doing (open it via Windows Explorer in Notepad, works also while IMatch is running).
I relocated first to the old drive (on J) which was quick, then I relocated to D: which was also quick
but it rescanned almost all the files again which took a lot of time.
I recall that it used a lot of (one) CPU previously when it took so long. Probably it would have finished eventually.
When you copied the files, perhaps the "last modified" timestamps of the files were updated? I don't know how you copied the files, but some software does not copy the original last modified timestamp but sets the current time. And then IMatch would of course have to rescan all files to check them...