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First steps

Welcome to the first steps of your journey with Starsky!

Note: This guide assumes that you have already downloaded and installed the Application: How to setup the desktop application using Windows and macOS you can find in the Windows Guide and macOS Guide

If you are looking for the command to reset Gatekeeper: Learn more in the macOS Guide

codesign --force --deep -s - /Applications/Starsky.app && xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Starsky.app

Setting Storage Folder​

  • Once you have installed Starsky, you can start it by opening the Starsky application.
  • Go to Preferences and change the Storage Folder's path to the location where you want to store your pictures.
  • Press Command + Shift + K on macOS and Ctrl + Shift + K on Windows to go to Preferences.
  • This looks like this:

Storage Folder Assets

Note: AppSettings can only be edited by Administrators, the first user is by default Administrator

Note: When using an environment variable, the path is not editable in the UI

When using as server mode: see account management for more info

Run re-sync​

  • After setting the Storage Folder, you can run a re-sync to update the view with the new location.
  • Go to the Home screen
  • In the menu, click on Refresh on the right top of the screen
  • Wait until synchronize job is finished

Importing photos​

  • After the sync is finished, you can start importing photos.
  • Go to the Home screen
  • In menu click on Import
  • This looks like this:

Import

The default structure is /yyyy/MM/yyyy_MM_dd*/yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_{filenamebase}.ext and the photos are placed in the correct folder. So a picture that has been taken at Saturday, 3 February 2024 10:10:29 will be placed in 2024/02/2024_02_03 and will be named: 20240203_101029_DSC07624.jpg the base name of the file is DSC07624 and the extension is jpg.

Read more about Import here

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