Speed up updating Catalogue over Network?

[thomasx]

Hello there,

we are using neo finder for decades (plural should be right – cd finder in the beginning) and are still loving it.
One thing I was wondering was if there was a way to speed up updating existing Catalogues over network.

We have our Catalogue files on a dropbox, which syncs locally, so that every user has the newest file at hand and locally. Searching in it is fast AF and super.
But updating the catalogue has always been a tedious process. Since I hat to shift computers (we have a dedicated computer who updates our main NAS hourly) I was re-evaluating the process and asking myself, why this process seems so slow... and if there was anything I could do, to speed up this process.

The Computer and the NAS (Synology) are connected to a 2,5 GBit/s switch both via 2,5G Network adapters. Transferring files usually runs with over 200 MB/s. SSDs are used on the NAS. This share on the NAS contains about 2 TB of data, about 1.000.000 files and 200.000 folders.

But updating the Catalogue runs at 1–2 MB/s. Neither the processor of both machines involved show any sweat, nor the RAM or any other component involved that iStat Menus can show.

I have uploaded my settings regarding the updating (so no recreating of preview files are happening).
Does anyone here have any idea, how to speed up the process? I hope I just have a (removable) bottleneck somewhere, that I did not see before.

Maybe someone has had this problem and found a way to speed things up.
Or is there a synology app somewhere, which might be able to update everything locally on the NAS (faster), that I am unaware of?

[neo-admin]

Hello,

as the NeoFinder Users Guide explains, reading Finder Comments and Finder Tags is very slow on macOS, due to the rather lame (sic!) SMB client from Apple:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/11/11.1/f ... oging.html

Also, instead of cataloging an entire huge volume, break the cataloging process up by cataloging separate top level folders separately, which will then later allow you to update only those that you know have changed.