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> Wait a few minutes, and voila! Instant contact sheet for me to peruse on my local machine. A few minutes of delay kinda negates the whole point I feel like.
by ladberg 6y ago
> Wait a few minutes, and voila! Instant contact sheet for me to peruse on my local machine.
A few minutes of delay kinda negates the whole point I feel like. It'd be much faster to have an X server running on the backup server and VNC in or run a file manager over an X tunnel.
- thanatos519 6y agoThe article was written in 2013. With a modern CPU and SSD, it wouldn't take so long. Besides, the file manager still has to scale the images (same work as the contact sheet process) and scrolling the view over VNC or X will push the same pixels over the pipe repeatedly so will be even slower.
- ladberg 6y agoI’d think the CPU and disk time is relatively negligible in this task and Dropbox is the real bottleneck. Viewing the pictures and scrolling in VNC or X should only take a few seconds, not minutes.
- brudgers 6y agoThe use case you're envisioning diverges more from traditional contact sheets more than what's in the article. Browsing pictures is not the same as having a picture of pictures. I can mark up the picture of pictures. I can print a picture of pictures to get an idea of how each picture will print. Creating a picture of pictures means I am certain of seeing the same thing later as I see now. To put it another way, back in the film days, someone might say "you can save several minutes by looking at the negatives instead of printing a contact sheet."