Increasing Confidence in the Import

[mrm]

Howdy @sandeep , welcome to PhotoStructure!

@sandeep

Love PhotoStructure - Ethos, UX, Execution and the automagic categorization. It’s the tool I’ve been looking for in many ways. So many things are done right including the safe import.

Thanks, that’s really appreciated! Can I use this quote on the public website?

@sandeep

I am happy to manually delete a directory but I need have confidence that everything I’m deleting has been imported.

I’m really hoping the new sync report in v2.1 will help answer this question.

Like you said, with 10k+ files, you need some industrial-strength tools to filter and sort, and rather than building that, I’m just emitting a CSV that you can then use Excel, OpenOffice, or any other spreadsheet tool to

• filter on “rejected”, which will list the files that sync didn’t import (and the reason),
• filter on “failed” and “timeout”, which are the files that PhotoStructure tried to import but couldn’t, and
• filter on “skipped”, which are the directories that PhotoStructure didn’t even walk into, due to it being considered “ignorable” (and the details column will explain why it was skipped/ignorable).

@sandeep

there needs to be an easy way to cp/mv anything that was not imported (excluding dupes) a command line tool is okay for this.

Ah! That’s a great idea!

The list tool seems to be a good candidate to add this feature, and a glob pattern would make this easy to work with. You’d run something like

photostructure list --unimported /path/to/photos/**/*

(please do suggest a better switch name for this: --missing-from-library perhaps? --not-in?