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#31

General Discussion and Questions / Re: Unable to Restore to a New...

Last post by Mario - December 03, 2024, 09:00:22 AM

The IMatch installer contains options that make the photools.com\IMatch6 folder hierarchy writable for "All Users".
Sometimes this seems to fail, as in your case, for reasons unknown.

how can a data folder be used?  Isn't the entire point of a data folder a place to put/write data?

It's even worse with "apps" installed from the Microsoft Store.
Apps get their own virtual "program data" and "user data folders" to isolate them. That's all they see when they try to access "program data". They don't get access to the "real" program data folder, unless some clunky and probably unreliable work-arounds are used.

The reason for this is isolation. Windows apps are prevented from reading or modifying data written by other software.

Which causes real problems for software like, e.g., IMatch, which uses the shared data folder to actually maintain shared data accessible for all users: settings database, presets etc.

#32

General Discussion and Questions / Re: Unable to Restore to a New...

Last post by PandDLong - December 03, 2024, 06:37:30 AM

Solved it.

I searched this site with some different terms and found this one  https://www.photools.com/community/index.php/topic,12913.msg91186.html#msg91186

Fixed my problem.   

It baffles me why Microsoft would default any "ProgramData" folder to not giving anyone Write privileges - how can a data folder be used?  Isn't the entire point of a data folder a place to put/write data?

Busy relocating folders...

Michael

#33

General Discussion and Questions / Unable to Restore to a New PC

Last post by PandDLong - December 03, 2024, 05:35:43 AM

I am moving to a new PC - followed the Help instructions to download iMatch and then attempted to restore using Pack and Go.

It gave a slew of access denied warnings.   I checked my Windows security and it reported no blocked actions and it is setup to give Apps access to the Documents libraries and the file system.  The log only lists the file name, so I am not sure what folder is the problem (or maybe that doesn't matter).



When I run iMatch 2023 on this new PC - it comes up as a "first time user" - so clearly the restore didn't work.  (As a side note, I am not sure what the "184.57 MB restored" means given my Pack & Go file is 680MB in size)

Suggestions?

Michael

#34

General Discussion and Questions / Re: How to activate HERE-Maps

Last post by Mario - December 02, 2024, 11:47:13 AM

Its working again for me now... I guess the 429 was on the HERE side and they shut down map requests for traffic issues?

Very possible. Occasionally, all vendors have out-times due to upgrades.

#35

General Discussion and Questions / Re: How to activate HERE-Maps

Last post by Jingo - December 02, 2024, 11:39:11 AM

Its working again for me now... I guess the 429 was on the HERE side and they shut down map requests for traffic issues?

#36

General Discussion and Questions / Re: What's your typical Databa...

Last post by sinus - December 02, 2024, 10:44:00 AM

30 minutes? This is really slow. Is the database on a SSD or spinning disk?
Virus checker configured with an exclusion for the folder (!) containing the database?

I will check this, thanks. The images and DB are on two separte SSD and I believe, I did the exclude the DB-folder from the virus-checker, but I will check this and report here.

But now first, uhhh, I have to go out in the cold, and must take pictures from 100 persons outside. 

#37

General Discussion and Questions / Re: What's your typical Databa...

Last post by Mario - December 02, 2024, 10:25:39 AM

30 minutes? This is really slow. Is the database on a SSD or spinning disk?
Virus checker configured with an exclusion for the folder (!) containing the database?

#38

General Discussion and Questions / Re: What's your typical Databa...

Last post by sinus - December 02, 2024, 09:36:14 AM

95% of the diagnosis runtime is database time, and this time depends solely on how fast the SSD is.

I have also about 370'000 images, my diagnosis time is mostly about 30 minutes. Hence 8 minutes looks very good for me.  

#39

General Discussion and Questions / Re: What's your typical Databa...

Last post by Mario - December 02, 2024, 09:07:04 AM

IMatch was the only application running at the time. 

IMatch peaked at 2 GB, so with 10 GB available when IMatch started + 2 GB => 12GB, which is not exactly 94% of 16GB.
A service, virus checker, Windows could have allocated the rest. Just that one program is running does not mean that 80 processes and services run in the background. Check Task Manager to see how memory is used.

For a database with almost 400,000 files and 15,000 categories, a diagnosis between 4 and 8 minutes is OK.
95% of the diagnosis runtime is database time, and this time depends solely on how fast the SSD is.

#40

General Discussion and Questions / Re: What's your typical Databa...

Last post by Darius1968 - December 02, 2024, 08:39:58 AM

IMatch was the only application running at the time.