I had a bit of trouble with the mac desktop version (or perhaps I just didn’t give it enough time … I have about 100k of photos)
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Switched to the node version … and have been enjoying it since. (And I enjoyed reading some of the source code comments.)
I’ve really enjoyed seeing some photos I had forgotten about. I signed up for a subscription (at least for a year) to give something back for the fun I’ve had so far.
I have a janky home-grown file tagging system … I wrote some scripts to create xmp files (repeatedly calling exiftool) so that PhotoStructure sees the keywords and people I’ve associated with the files. It’s slow, but it works.
Next up … I should establish some GPS locations for some of the “place” tags I have … and then write the coordinates to the xmp files so that PS can make use of them. More fun!
I, like others, would like to find a way to have a slide show. I may write something to take a PS URL (front door, or result of a search), grab the links (if any) for that URL, and then repeatedly get a link, get the image URL from the link (the first link? the 1440w link? whatever) and show it. Not sure what environment I would do that in yet. Maybe I will find a helper piece of code. Perhaps I would have a tiny website alongside PS and it would serve up the slideshows (and then Mom etc could more easily enjoy things)
I haven’t written anything directly against the sqlite database that PS uses … but am tempted to do so (since my tagging system is sqlite-based). Might restrict myself to looking, not touching, since I don’t want to have to re-scan everything.
Anyway … thanks for the fun so far.