Transfer Tonfotos database

atlebjanes

I have a Windows 11 computer serving as a file server with some _400k pictures on. I’m using Picasa but it’s inability to process RAW and HEIC is forcing a change. I found Tonfotos and am cautiously optimistic. With Picasa, I can copy the folders C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2 and C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2Albums folders from one computer to another and have the entire setup on the new computer.

Can you do the same with Tonfoto? This is really important - I’ve been running Tonfoto continuously now for ₁₀ days (and have had to restart many, many times), and it still only has scanned and cataloged maybe half my photos.

In other words, is there a way to copy the Tonfoto database from one computer to another? Once the server is scanned and I can copy databases from one computer to another, I will purchase licenses for two computers 🙂

Andrey

atlebjanes No, this is not supported. Indexing is required on every PC where Tonfotos is installed.

Pieter

atlebjanes In other words, is there a way to copy the Tonfoto database from one computer to another?

I notice other people have a need for a database stored with the photos ;-)

atlebjanes

Thanks for the reply. Is there some effort underway to speed this up? Picasa is orders of magnitude faster than any other application I’ve tried (and I’ve tested a lot of them), including Tonfotos.

Andrey

atlebjanes Curretnly indexing of videos is the slowest part, we are working on it.