Is there a way to see that a specific drive is being indexed?

[dreetz]

I have a Synology DS1812+ mapped to Z: . Is it possible to determine if Photostructure is indexing that drive?

[mrm]

@dreetz

Is it possible to determine if PhotoStructure is indexing that drive?

PhotoStructure is keeping track of this already, but the UI doesn’t currently have a nice way to check this (but I agree with you, I think it should). In the next release, browse by filesystem is a thing, which would be a good place to add metadata like this.

If you want to peek “under the hood,” you can install DB Browser for SQLite (it’s open source and a great piece of software, I use it all the time), and open your library database (stored in your library directory, .../.photostructure/models/db.sqlite3, and look at the Progress table.

The Progress table is what drives the “progress panels” on the home page. As a sync runs for a given volume, a single row gets updated.

I’ll add a --sync-paths argument to the info tool that exposes this, too (this will be in the next release).

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Show more import and sync details

Sync status is still pretty opaque in PhotoStructure, and is frequently a cause of frustration for users. Adding the info tool, library metrics and tag counts were tiny steps to help with this, and I wrote this article to give a bit more context, but the situation is still not OK. The issue is that getting a browser to render a list with hundreds of thousands filenames is a bit of a trick: but maybe that’s not what’s needed? A beta user suggested adding, after an import is run, a summary that…