A long time ago, in a different millennium, a young nerd convinced his beautiful wife to give up her SLR film camera, and switch to digital.

The following are some of the features that we’re considering adding to PhotoStructure in the coming months and years. Please note These are not in any order

🎊 Version 0.9: 💯💯💯-file edition This version includes improvements for very large libraries, new features, new security enhancements, updates to several major dependencies, and many other bugfixes and improvements, both visible and behind the scenes.

Say hello to a brand new PhotoStructure! We’re really excited by what’s in this new release: thanks to our beta users for their help and their feedback!

We’re excited to announce a new release of PhotoStructure! This is the biggest update to PhotoStructure ever, containing over 30 new features and bug fixes, many of them driven by beta user feedback.

Your PhotoStructure library contains 📚 your image database, ⚙️ library settings, 🖼️ preview images, and 🎞️ transcoded videos (if enabled).

When PhotoStructure is importing files, it automatically excludes all hidden files, as well as operating system and application support directories.

When PhotoStructure encounters errors, it may automatically send a report to our error system, Sentry. These error help us determine both what resulted in the error, and how to resolve it in the future.

PhotoStructure has several strategies to ensure your library matches your filesystem. 🩳 Briefly A “sync” focuses on your filesystem. Sync updates your library with changes made to your filesystem.

Version 0.9.0 added a bunch of metrics about your PhotoStructure library to the about page. This page tries to explain what exactly these numbers represent.

Computers can be, and frequently are, persnickety. If you’re having problems with PhotoStructure or seeing error messages, you’re in the right place.

Browsing with PhotoStructure is designed to be fun and fast. If you’ve got a bunch of files that are of the same photo or video, and you have to click “next” several times to see something different, it’s irritating and decidedly not-fun.

When you set up your library, you’ll see this option: PhotoStructure uses the words “disk,” “drive,” and “volume” to mean any storage device available to your computer.

When you upgrade to a new version of PhotoStructure, you may see this progress bar: What’s going on here?

PhotoStructure has a number of filters that all must pass for a photo or video to be added to your library.

PhotoStructure is designed for million-asset libraries, so you shouldn’t need to switch between libraries in most cases. If you want to have a couple separate libraries, though, you certainly can.

Your copy of Windows 10 may be configured to only support Latin-character filenames. This may prevent programs (like PhotoStructure) from accessing your files.

Every time you take a digital photo or video, your camera or smartphone records a bunch of information about the image that you just captured.

PhotoStructure is designed to be a very safe home for the images of your life. You should consider older hard drives, especially more than 5 years old, as fragile parchment that must be handled with care.

When you close the main PhotoStructure window, PhotoStructure continues to run in the background, which may include synchronizing your library’s photos and videos.

Your PhotoStructure library contains 📚 your image database, ⚙️ library settings, 🖼️ preview images, and 🎞️ transcoded videos (if enabled).

All of PhotoStructure’s tags are “hierarchical.” This article will try to explain how they work, and why they’re useful. Flat tags Most popular tagging systems, or folksonomies, are “flat.

Version 0.9.0 added a bunch of metrics about your PhotoStructure library to the about page. This page tries to explain what exactly these numbers represent.

You can use environment variables to configure PhotoStructure’s settings. The defaults.env file describes all of PhotoStructure’s settings, and how to change each with an environment variable.

If your photos and videos are disorganized, PhotoStructure can bring some order to your chaos. If you’d like all your photos and videos to be organized into one, tidy place, choose “Yes” on PhotoStructure’s settings page:

If your PhotoStructure library isn’t opening due to database corruption, you can restore your library’s database to a previous version. Although your library’s database is very robust, an incomplete backup or incomplete shutdown may lead to this situation.

PhotoStructure’s settings page is simple and only offers a handful of configuration options. There are many configurable settings within PhotoStructure, though, including:

If you’re on a desktop or laptop, knowing a couple keyboard shortcuts will help you get around your library faster.

PhotoStructure uses a bunch of methods to pull out keywords from your photos and videos. Keywords from metadata PhotoStructure extracts keywords from the following metadata tags:

So, you’ve got PhotoStructure installed, and it looks like it’s importing every photo and video you’ve got. What should you know now?

🎥 Do you have videos? Please follow these steps. It’ll only take a minute. 📖 See also: Where should I install PhotoStructure?

Your library’s disk space is proportional to the number of photos and videos you have in your library, and whether or not you choose to have PhotoStructure organize your photos and videos by copying them into your library.

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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT This End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between (a) You (either an individual or a single entity) and (b) PhotoStructure, Inc.