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.