Symptoms

Fotostation creates thumbnails and previews very slowly on systems that have been calibrated with X-Rite color management tools.

Cause

Fotostation is known to be incompatible with X-Rite color management profiles. Therefore, if Fotostation is set to use any X-Rite color management profile or is configured to use the system default profile (which, after X-Rite calibration, would be an X-Rite profile) for thumbnails and previews, the generation of thumbnails will seem very slow.

Solution

Configure Fotostation to use a different color management profile for thumbnails and previews.

To do so:

• Go to File > Configuration. (Fotostation - Configuration on Mac)
• Expand the General node and choose Color Management.
• Turn off Use Fotoware Default Profile for thumbnails and previews, and choose a non-X-Rite profile from the list.
• Select OK.