Hi,

I'm still surprised that the console with the log lacks vital information which makes it difficult to read it. So, what is missing? A time stamp. Without it, it is impossible to analyse which step has a potential to speed things up. In our own applications time stamps are vital. They look like this:

• So we have a unique line number, which makes it easy when you communicate with a colleague: „Hey Joe, just look in line 00123, that looks strange“;
• We have a date;
• We have a time;
• And the time includes of course also milliseconds;

I don't understand how team Sweden, Laza, Jeff and Rob are working without this vital info.

I really would like to see time stamps in the log.

Of course, I am very curious as to why a time stamp is not important.

Thanks, Markus

I would like to have a time stamp automatically for every line in the console log.

Yes, I know. But to be honest, the format of that time stamp is just h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. Who can really read this without getting crazy in second?

I'm just looking in the log of TeamViewer:

2017/03/22 10:14:34.944 13268 15116 G2   Logger started.
2017/03/22 10:14:34.948 13268 15116 G2+  ScopedCom: Attached to thread 15116
2017/03/22 10:14:35.015 13268 15116 G2+  GetSimpleDisplayCertNameFromFile: Found cert name: 'TeamViewer'.

So, I'm not the only person in the universe using a readable time stamp in logs.

Thanks, Markus

The album which I compile very often takes about 13 minutes and longer, even I haven't changed, added or delete one picture, video, PDF or any other object. And the bad thing is not the time it takes but the sound/noise the HDD makes during this process, that sound goes down your spine, it sound for minutes like the disc will crash in a second.

So I'm not interested how long the build time is, but how long some specific tasks last.

You remember maybe that I recently changed the logging level from "Warning" to "ALL" and some of my pictures where marked with the variants resolution. That was only to try to get more info what does take so long to compile an album with just 6,354 pictures, 519 videos and 1,345 others. I would call that a small album. Other users here are sometimes talking about albums with 100,000 objects and more. It would take days to compile such an album here.

So, I'm not sure, is it "safe" to use the logging level "ALL" again (with JA 29rc)? And not getting pictures watermarked with the variants resolution?

Or any other tip how I should find out what takes so long to compile an album?

Thanks, Markus

Not sure it is recommended but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24637600/how-to-format-date-in-java-logging
Shows how to change the logger's date format when jAlbum starts:
-Djava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format=
What follows the equals sign is specified in
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/logging/SimpleFormatter.html#format-java.util.logging.LogRecord-
The time stamp is specified by the %1, example below (I think I got it right!)
(year day month hours:minutes:seconds am/pm
%1$tY %1$td %1$tb %1$tl:%1$tM:%1$tS %1$Tp

Also, pass us a link to the final album and I'll inspect the project settings.

That helped much!

I use:

 -Djava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format="%1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY %1$tH:%1$tM:%1$tS.%1$tL%n"

Which produce something like this:

05.10.2022 19:02:54.386

That is readable.

Here we go: https://www.markus-drueck.de/norge/

I recorded a video of the compile part and the upload part.
https://www.markus-drueck.de/JA/Video_2022-10-05_193234.wmv

Maybe you can spot anything of value. As you can see it took four minutes until the first object was processed. Does that ring a bell on your side? Thanks.

P.S. If the Linux or Mac folks are not able to watch that video, I can put it in an album and process it. Just give me a hint.