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I am working on an image processing project. For that I have a directory which contains around 70,000 images. As I process them in multiple stages I save the intermediate images in another directory. But when I want to see it I can't, as when I open the directory, due to the number of files the file manager stops responding.

Even if I somehow manage to open it, I fear that the image viewer will not respond, as I am under the impression that they try to put a few images in cache to load faster.

I tried to open the images from terminal. I can open one image at a time in this case but I can't view it as a gallery, which is equally bad as I need to view many images to know that the results are satisfactory.

Zanna
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Prince Kumar
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70k image files are a lot.

The first thing I can suggest is to disable thumbnails (In nautilus > preferences, choose the "preview" tab, select Never).

thumbnails

Then you can test the various image viewers/manipulators (the standard viewer, gthumb, shotwell, darktable, etc etc ) and see if someone is reasonably fast.

Rmano
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