I’ve just installed Aspect for the first time, trying to find my way around. First thing is to wrap my head around how storage works. And I don’t fully understand it:
I created a library in the Pictures folder on my Mac, and later added a Samba share on my NAS as a second storage location. For the NAS, I choose Store all originals and changed the sync settings for my local library to Manual selection. But I still see the high resolution images on my computers hard drive, even though no event is selected for local storage or any of the photos are in a scanned folder.
This is a limitation of the current synchronization implementation, but your assumption how it is supposed to work is correct. Right now, the synchronization rule is only applied in an additive way and the part that actively removes images that fall outside the rule is disabled.
The reason for this is that we are still in the process of implementing a new protocol for this that is able to guarantee that no images can ever get lost, regardless of network connectivity circumstances or timing, and that can also guarantee that there is a configurable level of redundancy (e.g. keeping always at least 2 copies).
What works right now is – once all files have been transferred to the NAS! – to manually delete the events/individual photo folders from the Mac trough Finder and then choose “Keep” in the “Files Deleted from File System” dialog that appears inside Aspect.
The new implementation should be ready in the next few weeks.
Excellent! Being able to configure how many copies you want for each original sounds really good!
This didn’t work though: I tried with one photo in the feed, got an icon in the top left corner of the preview that I guess mean “offline only”, but as soon as the NAS came back online the deleted photo was synced back to the notebooks harddrive even though I have its sync setting set to Manual.
You’ll have to delete a whole event folder or whole individual files folder for this to work because that is the granularity at which the synchronization rules work. However, I tested this again and contrary to what I said, no “Files Deleted from File System” appears after deleting an event, that just happens for events that are expected to be available locally according to the synchronization rule set.
