MacOS videos not showing thumbnails

[mrm]

PhotoStructure has a ton of file filter patterns and heuristics to prevent unwanted photos and videos from being imported into your library. You may be fighting with one of those filters.

There are a couple ways to debug this.

1. Use ./photostructure sync --force --debug /path/to/video.mp4 and look for a log entry that explains why it’s skipping or failing to process your video.

2. switch to the alpha branch, which includes “sync reports”, and run the above command, and instead of scrutinizing many screenfuls of log messages, just open the report and see the reason.

Here are a couple relevant pages:

PhotoStructure sync reports

What’s a “sync report”? PhotoStructure v2.1+ assembles “sync reports” that you can manually review to know exactly what the sync process did as it walked through your scan paths and examined your filesystem for photos and videos. These reports are in CSV format and can be opened in any spreadsheet application, like LibreOffice, Excel, or Google Sheets. Where are these sync reports? Sync reports can be found in the .photostructure/sync-reports sub-directory of your PhotoStructure library. …

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