Does PhotoStructure stay in sync with filesystem changes?

[mrm]

After your initial import completes, PhotoStructure re-scans for changes every day.

If you’d like this to be more or less frequent, change the syncIntervalHours library setting.

Related:

Add “watched” folders that synchronize as soon as files are added

This feature, along with the use of applications like Resilio Sync, SyncThing, and PhotoSync, would mean photos taken on your phone show up in your PhotoStructure library within seconds. Currently, PhotoStructure scans all paths for changes every day. This interval is configurable via the syncIntervalHours library setting.

Can I control when sync runs?

Is there a way to adjust when/how often PhotoStructure syncs? Right now I have my iPhone backing up nightly at 2 AM. It would be handy if those photos were accessible inside of PhotoStructure that morning without having to run a manual sync. PhotoStructure runs sync every 24 hours, based on when it was started. This period is controlled by the syncIntervalHours library setting. If you’d rather PhotoStructure run at a specific time, and you’re comfortable with the terminal, set syncIntervalHo…

[satishev]

I’ve not specifically set any environment variables or messed with either settings.toml file.

However, my PhotoStructure docker install has not been auto-updating since my original setup. I had to run a ‘Restart Sync’ in the Web UI for it to pull in photos added since mid-Jan (when I first installed it). Where would I look to figure out what is going on?

[mrm]

@satishev

my PhotoStructure docker install has not been auto-updating since my original setup

That’s no good: sorry it’s not working correctly! I’ll take another look at the scheduling code and make sure it looks right. I’ll change this to a “bug” until things are working on your end (but it may take a new version to fix this).

@satishev

Where would I look to figure out what is going on?

You can either run sync by hand with debugging enabled, or set PS_LOG_LEVEL=info in your container and look at the -sync- logs with logcat. The class in charge of that is SyncPaths (so that’s something to grep for).

[mrm]

Thanks for reporting this: I found the issue, and the bugfix will be in beta.4.

[gijsh]

using v2023 December, and still no automatic changes?

[mrm]

sync should pick up changes to files (and even changes to sidecars), but v2023.12 had a couple edge cases that could cause those changes to not be committed properly to the library database (it gathered together all the updates, and then missed the commit).

The next v2024 build should address those edge cases, and adds more verbosity to the sync report so you can “trust but verify” that PhotoStructure is doing the correct thing.