Explain how family license works

frazzle12

I’m trying to decide whether to buy the one-user or family license, and I’m not clear how the family plan works.

If I have tonfotos installed on my computer, and have scanned all the pictures on my hard disk, and other family members have installed it on their computers and scanned the pictures on their hard disks, what happens?

Can we see each other’s pictures? Can I use my tonfotos to remotely scan pictures on their computers?

Or can we only share tonfotos’ scan data on a shared folder, like Google Drive or Dropbox?

Thanks.

Andrey

frazzle12 Tonfotos is not a cloud storage it does not copy your images or store it somewhere in the cloud. You can think of it as of specialized search engine for your images. It cannot access images that your computer has no access to, but it will index all images you will point it to. So, in order for several copies of application to collaborate on the same photo archive, all copies need to have access to the same archive. It can be stored on external drive, local network or virtual cloud folder, as an example. Once Tonfotos has access to it, it will write additional information on this drive, and other copies will be able to pick up this information modify and it back to other Tonfotos copies. You can read this article to get more information about synchronising information about people on the images: https://community.tonfotos.com/d/186-version-150-people-data-synchronization Apart from faces and people, you can modify image metadata (tags, locations, comments, etc.) and other copies will pick that up too.

Important addition: there is no need to buy family license if you want only two copies, for example. Two copies with different licenses will communicate just like several copies activated with the same license. This collaboration is not fixed to the license, it is fixed to your archive.

frazzle12

Thanks, Andrey, very helpful. I thought it had to be something like this, but I wanted to be sure.

thesharps6210

If you purchase two personal licenses rather than the family will the Information be automatically synchronized between users?

The family plan says that it does this but the personal license does not.

We will have 2 users on different devices with a single connected hard drive for main storage.

Andrey

thesharps6210 As I explained in the post above, sychnronisation does not require copies to have same license, only to share same archive, so it will work regardless.

In the pricing we point out to the fact that you need more than one copy of Tonfotos for sychnronization to work, that is why it is obiously not a thing for single user license.