When you make some changes in your preferred cataloging software, Peakto needs to update its database.
Most of the changes are obvious to detect, and Peakto can be updated quickly when you run a Fast Sync. But other modifications like a deletion of a Picture or a Folder are more difficult to resolve quickly. That's why we introduced the Run Deep Sync action in version v1.10.4. This action replaces the Smart Reingest of the previous versions and will perform a thorough scan of all the catalog and detect the changes. When nothing has changed for a specific image, it can move quickly to the next image and will not lose any time computing thumbnails, etc... It therefore takes more time than a Fast Sync but still takes a fraction of the time of the initial ingest.
The following table describes the limitations of Fast Sync for the various types of source:
Catalog Software | Fast Sync limitations | Details |
| Watched Folder | No limitations | Sometimes, for version from specifics software (DxO Photolab, ON1 PhotoRaw), we can't get the preview of the image, because it is not available in the computer. |
Lightroom Classic Catalogs | Deleted files and structure | Fast sync will not detect and update a version that was removed from your Catalog. We can't detect changes from your collection Set, all the picture associated to your collection Set are not well synchronized in Peakto. When you move a Collection inside another collection Set, we can't associate the versions to the collection inside Peakto, and when you delete a collection set, the collection set stay inside Peakto. |
Capture One Catalogs and Sessions | Deleted files and structure | Fast sync don't remove a version that was removed from your Catalog. We can't synchronize all the changes in your Users Collections hierarchy and the pictures associated to a folder can be wrong. We don't detect when you remove a picture from an album. Moreover, regarding your Capture One options, if you are not syncing your metadata inside an Xmp files, we don't detect and synchronize any metadata change to Peakto. In this case yous always should run a Deep Sync. |
Luminar Catalogs | No limitations. | All Changes are synchronized, but sometimes we can't get an accurate preview. |
Apple Photos | No Limitation for System Library | For your system Library, we don't have any limitations. For others Librairies, we don't synchronize changes in your album folder hierarchy. |
IView Media & Aperture | No Fast Sync | There is no accurate Fast sync for theses catalogs. |