New user, Tonfotos scanning

vip1869

Hi,

I am a new user and like what I have seen so far in Tonfotos. I added a Library location that happens to be a OneDrive cloud location. Tonfotos is scanning the photos and saying there is 20 hours, and seems like it is downloading the photos to the pc local drive. Is that normal?

If that is expected, then what happens if I have more photos on OneDrive than I can have on my pc? I save all my photo’s to OneDrive only as I do not have a lot of space on the pc.

Regards,
Vip

Andrey

vip1869 Thank you for your feedback!

As to space issue, this totally depends on OneDrive implementation. Tonfotos works with it like with any other folder, but it is OneDrive responsibility to make this folder virtual. In theory, it would only download files when needed, and free up space once they are not used anymore, even though it may look like files are still here when you just browse the folders. However, I am not with Microsoft so I cannot guarantee this is exactly how they implemented it, unfortunately.

I think other users will find your find expereince useful, so I would be grateful if you would share it here as thing are progressing on your end.

vip1869

Hi Andrey,

Thank you for your reply.

Here is how I have setup my pc to OneDrive for photos. My “Pictures” local folder is set to sync to OneDrive. Every time I add photos to this folder the files get synced to OneDrive. I then right-click and select “Free up space”, which I understand means the files are stored on OneDrive only and only keeps a thumbnail locally There is a cloud icon next to the photo file. So before I added my OneDrive “Pictures” location to Tonfotos, all my photos were set to be on cloud only, they had the cloud icon next to them. As soon as I added the “Pictures” folder as a Library location, Tonfotos started to downloaded each photo to my local drive (I did not initiate anything). Each photo now has a Green tick icon next to it, meaning it is on my local drive as well as on OneDrive.

So, what I wanted to understand is; does Tonfotos need to have every photo locally available to be able to do anything with it, like change metadata, rotate it, etc.

Regards,