Sluggish Asset Indexing Craft is a miracle for us but we've hit a snag.

We have about 100 products with around 10 images each.

We've scraped the images from the old site and put them into the appropriately named folders in assets.

Each time we add more, we have to run the asset reindexer which will only reindex the entire section. So even if we add a single folder of images, the entire lot are indexed again. If you've ever used the asset indexer you'll know that for whatever reason it is dog slow.

Why is this?
Could the immediate folder not be quickly indexed when the asset viewer is opened in the back end or at least provide an option to reindex that specific entrys assets?

Future projects may have 10,000 assets+ so it is a concern.

I'm open to better workflow suggestions as well.

Thanks :)
One way to get around this is to create a new Asset Source (let’s call it “Staging”).


Add the folder of unindexed images/assets into Staging, our new asset source (which should otherwise be empty).
Now, run the asset indexer via Settings > Update Asset Indexes only for our new source, Staging.
Once the indexer has done its job, go to the Assets section of the Control Panel and drag the freshly indexed folder of images/assets from Staging to the desired Asset Source.


Repeat the above process every time you wish to index a bunch of new assets without touching the previously indexed assets.