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First steps

Welcome to the first steps of your journey with Starsky!

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

If you are looking for the command to reset Gatekeeper: Learn more in the Mac OS 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 Mac OS 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
  • Press More on the right top
  • Click Synchronize manually
  • This looks like this:

Manual Sync

  • Press Synchronize current directory manually

Manual Sync

  • Wait until the sync 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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