If I drag 1000 images into toast it scans, takes forever, torture.
If drag those images in via a folder no problem. why is this?
Sometimes I don't have images in a folder. any ideas?

I assume you are using the Data window. Which setting? Is it a Photo Disc? Click the New Disc button and then the button changes to New Folder. You can create a folder in Toast and drag the photos into that folder. I don't know why the images are being scanned. It may be that clicking New Disc first will allow you to quickly add the photos without creating a folder in Toast.

T:
just tested that, thanks, and even with creating new folder in toast, toast still does long scanning thing. Whereas if I drag in the a folder made in finder, it's all there in Toast instantly, why is this?

I don't have a large quantity of pictures that are inside one folder so it's hard for me to witness the delay you're experiencing. This is the Photo Disc setting in Toast, right? I don't have any delay with the other Data options. When I tried dragging in a folder of photos that includes subfolders and most are .dng rather than .jpeg there were a few seconds when Toast said scanning. But that was dragging in a folder. I didn't have a subfolder with enough images to notice the delay for scanning when dragging in the images themselves. When I dragged in .jpegs I didn't see scanning appear at all, but that may be due to the few number of images.

Are all your photos .jpegs or are there any raw images?

I don't know why there is a difference between directly dragging in the images or dragging in a folder of images. I'm not even certain it would be the same on my Mac. Toast must be checking the files for something such as file type but it seems to me it would be the same regardless of how the photos were added to the Toast window. I just don't know.

T,
never saw a photo disc option, but just tested it, no difference.
YEs you just check this out one day. Jpeg Raw, no difference.

Take 1000 images and put thim in folder in finder. Drag into Toast. Immeditate quick upload.

Now drag thing as big group of images, no folder.
Huge scan time drag with Toast, whethere they go in as in or into one of Toasts folders.

I'll look into it on Monday. This weekend I have grandkids visiting and won't have time.

Ok, have fun!

I created a folder of 1,000 images and tested this. I think I've figured out what's happening. When you drag the images directly to the Toast window Toast must organize them in alphanumeric order. The scanning is the time Toast is reading the file names and organizing them. When you drag in a folder of images it only has one item to put in alphanumeric order – the folder itself – so that of course happens very fast. If you dragged 1,000 folders instead of 1,000 images directly to the Toast window you'd see the same delay for scanning.

T,
excellent, would have never guessed.
So you see your computer basically freezes up intolerably?
Verdict you agree:
You must for sanity, drag in the 1000 images from a folder made on the finder?

My 1,000 images were only about 1.5 megapixels each and it took Toast about 45 seconds to complete the scanning. I agree, though, that it is much better to add a few hundred folders than a few thousand files.

thanks T!