Version 1.0.0-rc.48

Announcements
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Hey everyone,

a new version of Aspect has been released: 1.0.0-rc.48 (view blog post). You’ll find the download links in the next section of this post. Simply install over the existing installation to upgrade.

Download

:paperclip: Windows installer (x86_64)
:paperclip: macOS bundle (universal)
:paperclip: Linux AppImage (x86_64)

:paperclip: Windows server version (x86_64) (experimental)
:paperclip: macOS server version (universal) (experimental)
:paperclip: Linux server version (x86_64) (experimental)
:spiral_notepad: Getting started with the server version

Please remember: Even though the software is reasonably stable at this point, always make a backup of your data!

Mobile Apps

:spiral_notepad: Getting Started on Android
:spiral_notepad: Getting Stated on iOS

Enhancements

  • Failure to initialize the metadata/thumbnail cache now results in an earlier error message box and stops the library load process
  • Updated RAW support for new camera models

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a memory leak occurring when loading videos on Linux and Windows
  • Fixed certain UI elements appearing pixelated instead of having a smooth gradient
  • Fixed parsing time zones for EXIF data generated by Olympus cameras
  • Fixed a crash happening after opening a file for editing caused by invalid metadata fields
  • Fixed a rare crash happening when exiting the application while in details view
  • macOS: Fixed opening files by double clicking in Finder or dropping onto the application icon

Feel free to leave any feedback here or in the bug reports sub forum. Thanks for helping to shape a new way of organizing photos!

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How is this a release candidate when I still can’t add my library to the app? The app can’t add any library that is on a secondary hard drive. It only shows the internal C: drive as an available source. I have 6 different disks on my system.

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This is by design. The idea is to have every disk be autonomous, which increases robustness and is particularly useful for external disks, as that allows them to be used for managing the library away from the main computer.

Setting this up is currently a manual process – see “Splitting a library over multiple hard disks”. We do plan to include a UI for managing multiple disks in a vastly simplified way, but this is something that had to be postponed for after the 1.0.0 release.

Edit: Also see my earlier reply in the dedicated thread: Scanned Folders list only shows C: drive

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Using existing files from other software stored on an external/secondary drive (as is the standard for photography workflows) currently feels like seeing a boarded up front door, and having signs point to go to the back of the hotel, walk in through the kitchen, and find the service elevator, with waiters and chefs getting in the way.

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I wouldn’t necessarily word it that way, but I definitely agree that it’s currently not really clear how that is supposed to work. I’ve added a note with a link to the documentation page to the “Scanned Folders” settings page for now to somewhat mitigate that.

Ultimately the idea is to make this process mostly transparent by allowing to select any number of directories, both in the settings dialog and in the library creation dialog. The application would then automatically prompt for a new library folder if no library instance exists yet on that drive (as well as handling ambiguous cases, for example when there are multiple library instances on a single drive).