MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Calibre is incredibly slow editing metadata

McCamel · 08-30-2012, 12:44 AM

Thanks kovidgoyal for the quick response. However, when I move a 1 GB .mkv file on my machine, it doesn't take remotely as long as Calibre takes when I commit the metadata edits for a 300 MB pdf. So this doesn't seem like it fully explains the problem. Or is that when I move a file in the Finder, the reference to it is just being changed, but when Calibre moves a file the whole file is being written elsewhere on disk?

Either way it would make sense to have this process run in the background rather than make Calibre hang. It seems absurd that it should take ~10 min to change the title of a few PDFs.

08-30-2012, 12:44 AM	#3
McCamel Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 20 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: none	Thanks kovidgoyal for the quick response. However, when I move a 1 GB .mkv file on my machine, it doesn't take remotely as long as Calibre takes when I commit the metadata edits for a 300 MB pdf. So this doesn't seem like it fully explains the problem. Or is that when I move a file in the Finder, the reference to it is just being changed, but when Calibre moves a file the whole file is being written elsewhere on disk? Either way it would make sense to have this process run in the background rather than make Calibre hang. It seems absurd that it should take ~10 min to change the title of a few PDFs.