I have about 15K photos in my collection and also see a lot of slowness. PhotoDirector appears to re-validate that all the photos it is attached to are still available during startup. Face tagging, though... wow, that is amazingly, painfully slow.
Detecting the face tags is actually pretty fast for me. What is super slow is the
saving part: Whether I just click a button with the name of the person associated with the face or enter a new name, it can take a minute or two to just save one face. It is way, way worse if face tagging thinks that two different faces from two different people are the same. For example, a "group" of two photos, one of Person A and one of Person B. PhotoDirector thinks these are both photos of the same person. It's not, so I uncheck the photo of Person B, then select the name of Person A to assign to the remaining checked photo of Person A. Doing that will peg my i7 processor for between five and 10 full minutes, to the point Windows thinks the program is being unresponsive and asks if I want to kill it.
In fact, I'm typing up my response to your post right now while I'm waiting for PhotoDirector to come back from one of these Person A/Person B operations. I was able to fire up my browser, search for this forum, log in, respond here, and PhotoDirector 8 is still eating 30% processor, nearly 2GB of RAM, and is entirely unresponsive to clicks. I will just have to wait.
I've got the latest patch that was just released; I excluded PhotoDirector from antivirus to ensure it's not slowed down; I have no idea how to speed it up. This is pretty much my only complaint. I can even live with the startup time if the face tagging didn't totally tank the thing.
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