Firstly, looks a great bit of a software that I somehow found, so thanks for that
Im trying to import my massive photo and video library (circa 700,000) with countless duplicates from my 3.5" external drive (didnāt dare with the NAS alternative with probably slower speeds).
It was going well, but its either my 2013 i5 8gb RAM MacBook that canāt handle it, or the app itself, but after so long, perhaps several hours, the entire system freezes up.
Iāve rebooted a couple of times and the sync has continued fine which was amazing, but this last time I donāt think it went as wellā¦ its showing photos coming and going in the progress bar, but the number of āprocessedā items is sticking at 15. Some kind of corruption?
I tried a sync pause, and a restart sync (though I wasnāt sure what the restart sync actually did) and no change. A reboot did nothing to help either. If its working- thats fine, but I donāt want to waste time as its a huge library and I know Iāll be at it for a good few more days at the speed its been going.
I noticed it there are 2 paths in the settings bitā¦ one being āstaleā which worries me.
A directory is āstaleā if it hasnāt been synced recently. Only one directory is synced at a given time, so if that gets stuck or runs for a while, other directories may fall into the āstaleā state.
Sorry about that!
The current stable release is v1.1.0, which is what youāre running. Unfortunately, it has some known issues with syncing, especially as library sizes increase, or if there are any very large directories (typical with smartphone backups, which can have 10k+ files in a single dir). I believe thatās what youāre hitting up against here.
I rewrote PhotoStructureās library directory iteration, database persistence, and job scheduling in the version 2.x branch, which is currently in alpha. You can see details about the latest builds in the release notes and in forum posts tagged with alpha, as well as in discord.
Thank you for the reply, I did think that must be the case re the versions, but thought if weāre beyond v 2.0 there could be a stable release of the previous.
So with the 2 directories, are we saying that the app has started again and Iām duplicating my efforts, and if so, is there a way back to fix this? just wondering how I should progress.
Unless youād recommend going with the alpha builds and starting again?
There were a ton of moving parts I changed in v2.x. the v2.0-alpha seemed to be looking good, so I did a v2.0-beta build, but after seeing several people have library db corruption, I didnāt want to release a stable build without addressing that issue, hence the lack of a v2.0-stable release and why weāre on v2.1-alpha.
Letās make sure I understand your setupāwhat does your settings page look like (specifically the āwhere is your libraryā and āwhere can I look for photos and videosā sections)?
I can also update to say there is now no processing happening at all, Iām faced just with the library of images and videos, with no progress bar/sync thing at the top.
The very minimum I would like to get out of this software is to get rid of my many duplicates, and to have the remainder in the date folder structures that its been doing.
What are āassetsā? seen as there are far fewer of these then there are images and videos? this number hasnāt gone up in a long timeā¦ I donāt know what it is, to know f thats right or not. Photos and videos are still āprogressingā.
As I have 2 āpathsāā¦due to a crash, both seemingly working? I donāt know where I stand on the sync situation?
I want to make sure that I only have 1 library, nothing missing (due to the crash), and to know what files or folders PhotoStructure creates? so I know what to copy/backup if need be I donāt want to delete the wrong photos or config files etc.
