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TBC Slow to Import Data

  • 1.  TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-29-2024 21:16

    I have been using a TBC job to process daily jobs (from TSC5) from a field crew for about 9 months now however the imports keep getting slower to the point where it can take an hour to import a new daily job with only a dozen points in the file. Is this a limiation of TBC with how it handles importing the daily job (such as converting .job to .jxl) or has anybody else encountered the same thing?

    Most of my processing (such as stringing services ascons etc) is done in this file however only reference design surfaces from other projects and file is sitting at 12mb.

    I have opened a blank project and imported same file in and it takes seconds to import so nothing wrong with the job files.

    I have tried deleting the history log and made no difference (it was asitting around the 1.1gb mark!)

    Im aware of the all the meta data assigned with each point that gets imported however find it very useful when processing or looking back over data.

    All data sits in onedrive/sharepoint and have tried pausing sync and even disconnecting interenet to see if this is casuing and issues.



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    Shaune Dorron
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  • 2.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-29-2024 22:59

    Are you "drag and dropping" your jxl / job, or are you importing from Sync Manager / Connected Community? 

    P.S. We have a different work flow. Each job/jxl gets imported to blank project, gets redrafted, corrected... whatever has to happen. Then VCL is exported (containing only reviewd, quality data) and that VCL is imported into "master" TBC project.



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    Marian
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  • 3.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-29-2024 23:09

    Tried importing through import script and also dragging and dropping from onedrive.

    Try to avoid your method by keeping everything in one TBC project as a one stop shop for field data.



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    Shaune Dorron
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  • 4.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-29-2024 23:20

    Copy.

    I haven't run into any issues drag and dropping from local drive or importing *.job from connect.

    Never tried the one drive route.



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    Marian
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  • 5.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-30-2024 07:11

    Yes,

    It just took me over an hour to import a 500 meg xml surface. Yesterday it took about half hour just to import 22 pdfs



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    Erik Petersen
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  • 6.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 05-30-2024 21:08

    Yes,

    My TBC 2024.00 is now getting very slow - especially importing any Survey Jobs with Photos as either Attributes or Tagged,

    Taking up to 20 minutes for 30 points - very frustrating



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    John Mill
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  • 7.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 06-01-2024 09:07
    Edited by Zach Edwards 06-01-2024 09:08

    Couple of suggestions. First, make sure that you are NOT using a network drive. Second, ideally you have a SSD that's not your C drive. Third, in the TBC options, make sure to type 100 in the RAM allocation field within the point clouds tab. Even if you aren't using tbc with point clouds. Also, make sure that your dedicated video card is being used in lieu of an integrated GPU. Lastly, I wouldn't even consider using TBC without a middle of the road i7 CPU and at least 32GB of RAM. TBC will/can only use up to 50% off the total ram.



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    Zach Edwards
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  • 8.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 08-10-2024 09:21

    Having the same issue. Importing and exporting the simplest of files is taking an hour or more. I've moved projects to my local drive, no help. It's to the point TBC is worthless to me unless it's a project with only 1 field day in it. We don't have projects like that. Most of our work is many days/weeks of work on the same job that must stay together. I've gone back 1 version and am not experiencing any issues at all. It's something embedded in the latest version.



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    Keith Ludwig
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  • 9.  RE: TBC Slow to Import Data

    Posted 08-10-2024 09:48
    Edited by Zach Edwards 08-10-2024 09:54
    This is not normal for TBC. There is a known issue in the latest version where shapefiles and ESRI Geodatabases cannot be imported or exported. This is contingent upon whether you have ESRI arcGIS pro installed. If you are on 3.3, you can simply roll back to 3.2 to resolve this issue. TBC Uses ESRI libraries. If you don't have arc GIS pro installed at all, this is a non-issue with the latest version of TBC. Regarding time to import and export other types of data, it should not be slow. You should never work off OneDrive connection or a spinning hard drive. It should only ever be a solid-state drive and not a network share drive! Lastly, I wouldn't even consider using TBC if you don't have at least 16 if not, 32 gigs of ram. Moreover, I would review your options and settings to make sure you’re optimally using the resources on your machine. I would also recommend not storing data on your C drive, but rather on a secondary solid-state drive that is not where your applications are installed. Lastly, I also point the temporary directory for Trimble business center to that ssd data drive. Importing PDF files should not be taxing on TBC either. Whoever said they tried to import a bunch of PDFs and it took forever, send over a few of those if you don’t mind and I will report back on timing.
    Zach Edwards, MAG
    MGIS Training & Support Lead