[EventPhotoMan]

I last looked at this on Windows 32 bit builds a few years ago.  I could only get about 10,000 pictures before Kodi crashed. The problem was Kodi exhausted all process virtual memory address apace (4 Gb on 32 bit).

Pictures are not stored in any library, unless you use the pictures database addon.

I would turn off "create thumbnails" for pictures.  I'm not sure it adds any benefit, except when browsing and even then you can rebuild thumbnails just for a single folder.  Also turning off reading exif should help.  I haven't tried to do a full-on stress test of picture slideshow in Kodi 18 64 bits.

I would probably partition the pictures into several different folders, and add each folder separately as a picture source.  That way you aren't clobbering Kodi when you try to run a slideshow.

scott s.

Interesting, I do have them in folders for each year and sub folders for date taken.

Change in the exif data doesn’t do anything different.

I haven’t thought of adding each year in as a picture source. Cody seems to be a little bit confusing when it comes to why you need sources for pictures call mom as compared to one source and then starting a slideshow from within the source sub folder
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