Adding folder that already is added

Stig

Possible to just have this message suppressed, if the folder is already added then “skip” and check the next..
I have selected 1000 folders, and clicking this message so many times is.. would be nice to avoid. 🙂

Andrey

Stig I have selected 1000 folders

Wow, why did you do that? This use case I never anticipated…

Stig

Okey, so this is how I I have tried different senarios - how Tonfotos will react since my collection is rather large.

1.)
NAS drive with a one folder MyPictures with underlaying folders.
Then I add this one folder R:\MyPictures\ to library.
(+) its is simple to add single folders with underlying folder and “face, dossier etc is inherited to all sub folders”.
(+) its easier to maintain face, dossier etc on a few folders.
(-) This makes the config.json only keeps one folder record.
(-) This makes the timer down in the left show 92h left scanning is showing 74h, 68h and does not seem accurate.
(+) if I make changes to folder inside, it would automatically pick up the changes in the folder structure and rescan

My tought:
Would be nice if it would list all the folders underneath the “one folder” i selected, and I could controll which folder should have face id and not… with more easily selection, and not one by one…

2.)
Adding all separate folders I have under R:\MyPictures*.*
(+) makes the config.json keep track of all the folders with more information
(+) makes it easier to disable face, dossier etc on each folder
(+) makes the timer in the left corner more correct as it gives the time for each folder its curently scanning
(-) its makes it a time-consuming job to go through all the folders and have to enable/disable face,dossier - this should be able to multiple select. This would also help to not look for face in a folder that is from a fotball match which dosens of unwanted faces.
(-) it does not pick up changes made to folder structure, and I have to manually add the folder again AND remove folders

My thought:
Would be nice if I could easily select folders I would like to have with face id etc… (multiple select)

Andrey

Stig Thank you for detailed explanations and reasoning. However, I am not sure I am with you here, since the benefits of separate approach do not seem convincing to me:

Why do you even care how much records are in config.json?
You don’t need to store dossier in so many folders. Those will be nearly identical, but program will have to sync with each one every time you make a change to people data, slowing down the program. It is enought to store it once, and back it up regularly together with your photos. And yes, there is also a backup file right there just in case.
Do you really need to disable faces in each folder separately? What for?

I can understand the prediction accuracy problem, but still I don’t think it is that bad to justify all this headache. And when indexing is done, scanning will be much faster and prediction will be much more accurate.

Stig

config.json. It does not matter to me that its been less information in this file. But always nice to have a way to confirm what Tonfotos is reading. I understand this is not for normal user, but it seems to me that when this information is written down, tonfotos works better (faster?) when it knows all the folders.. but I’m just guessing..

Keeping one dossier for all folders is fine by me, but then if there was a way to “expand” the one-folder, and be able to select/deselect face recon on different folders would be nice because I have folders with alot of faces, concerts and fotball matches etc.. I dont want all these faces to be “suggested”.. I only want to handpick the faces I want.
So a feature to look for “only these faces in this folder” would be good.
(and I know about the CTRL+A and CTRL+I do ignore all faces on all photos in a folder - it works)

Reson for me wanting to disable faces is that the system scans faces without my control.
There are two main reasons, and I feel like this is very important:
1.)
I would like the system to scan all faces in one folder.
Then I would sort all faces.
Then enable scanning next folder.
Then I would sort all faces.
And so on..

2.)
This would make the program more stable to work with when I’m adding text/comments to images.
Moving images around with CTRL+M.
Then I know “all cpu” is been used to the process that I want it too…

I think this would benefit more people to that they can have more control without having “random” face suggestions when they use the program (but I get the idea of the program running smoothly with tasks in the background getting/collection information to present to the user, but it also takes cpu from scrolling between pictures or editing metadata).
I know this problem is because my collections is large, and probably that is why the program is “doing things in the background all the time”.. More control, please 😀

Andrey

Stig Hmm, thank you. This actually makes sense. Interesting view point.