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Regards Chemist
Good to hear you already addressed the daemon startup. Some progress indication as you mentioned was on my mind too.
If you can/want to do it yourself: please do so
But when you think it takes too much time, I could jump in (for progress log/scheduling or so). Better contact me by pm in that case.