Info Panel: More frequent updates will calm the user 'cause progress visible

[ubacher]

Mario: could you make the Info-panel update more often. As is it shows progress only in big chunks.
( I just had it sit on Processing 2 of 21 for a long time, next it was finished.)

It calms the user when s/he can see that things are going on.

[Mario]

The panel is updated about every 10 seconds.

IMatch processes files in large batches, and reading metadata from 50 files can take 5 to 50 seconds, depending the format of the files, the amount of metadata contained in the files etc. IMatch cannot know that in advance. The same applies to ingesting files (thumbnail and cache generation etc.). IMatch adapts the size of the batches based on how long the last batch took, e.g. reducing batch size from 50 to 25 if the last batch took more than 10 seconds. But if you have a diversified set of files to process, or the formats and amounts of metadata vary, batches may take longer even if smaller.