Big Mediabay database very slow with very fast computer

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Hi there!

So i have a huge Mediabay database with all my samples and presets of the last 25 years or so…

I have a very fast pc (5950x) and very fast harddrives (all new samsung EVO NVME’s).

Still the mediabay just hangs ALL the time, to a point i almost cant use it anymore…

Anybody have advice on this?
is there a max on Mediabay items?

Ive disconnected big data backup disks, so thats not it.

It seems, when i open a new project, Mediabay is scanning something but i cant find it in the tree (no red folders beeing actually scanned).
is there a way to just TURN OFF the scanning? I dont copy or create a lot of new items per day, so Mediabay should know what is on my harddrive, so no need for constant scanning :slightly_smiling_face:

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I have this problem as well. How did you solve it?

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Out of curiosity, how many elements do you have stored?

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hi yes ive sold it by deleting a lot of super old presets from Sylenth i never used…it kept rescanning these every time

ive moved to macbook M2 in the meantime, no issues here, yet

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The mediabay is just plain slow if you have tens of thousands of files. I think it’s older search tech (built off of SQL I think) and I wish Steinberg would update to a better utility. There’s free tools out there that are far superior, but of course, they don’t integrate with Cubase.

I use a desktop search tool called “Everything”. It’s blazing fast and supports drag and drop, so you can use it with Cubase - somewhat.

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Yes ive looked into 3rd party browser like Everything, Loopcloud, ADSR browser etc and they are amazing.

I work a lot with MIDI Loops and Track Presets, so 3rd party is difficult to work with.

But again on my macbook i have zero problems (now CB 13)

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i dont know, where can I see this?

my VST3 presets are around 40.000

and my MIDI Loops and Track Presets around 3500

these are all presets i actually use all the time, and saved over the years

on top of this i have 4TB internal disk in my macbook, mostly songs, samples and big archives like Kontakt Ultimate etc etc

maybe millions of elements?

last years, i took a lot of presets out, i guess it was over 100.000 vst presets before. (like arturia, has a lot of presets i dont need, but add up with scanning)
I also deleted most of Cubase stock presets