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Synchronisation Modes in Peakto
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 ...
How to reset Peakto and start afresh
Sometimes you wish to start from a blank sheet again and reingest content, or rebuild a complete Peakto catalog with your content If you feel like you need to start afresh because of an issue, please contact support first so we can help and prevent ...
Troubleshooting blank thumbnails
This article explains how to troubleshoot a missing thumbnail in the source. There are various situations in which Peakto can produce Blank thumbnails, but these situations are rare, and there should always be a good reason for it. If you see blank ...
Best practices when synchronising with CaptureOne
Peakto can sometimes have some difficulties to detect changes in a CaptureOne catalog, because CaptureOne Pro does not store information about the change events that happen during the lifetime of a catalog. One way to greatly improve this, is by ...
Why Capture One or Luminar previews show a thumbnail beside my photo in Peakto ?
Sometimes when you open a Photo from a Capture One or Luminar Neo Catalog, you see two pictures: - the original one, in full resolution; - the edited one in a smaller window. This feature was introduced in Peakto 1.7.5 (June 2023). Because Peakto ...
Peakto does not seem to pick up the changes in my sources. Why?
This behaviour can lead to some confusion and we hope to explain it better in this article. For performance reasons, we implemented the following rules when it comes to checking for incremental updates: We never run a check at startup We run a check ...
How to activate the Developer Menu?
Since v1.7, Peakto contains a new option that allows to unlock some additional menus that are useful when interacting with CYME support. If our support asks you to unlock the developer mode, please do the following: - Open the Peakto Preferences ...
Difference between the various synchronisation methods
Peakto has been designed to keep track of the changes happening in the underlying catalogs. It will notify you when changes are detected via a dedicated icon in the sidebar, next to the source, but it won't run the sync. This task is left to you ...
Working with Peakto with several computers
Peakto lets you choose where its database is located. By default, Peakto stores its files in the Library/Application Support/Peakto directory of the user account, but this can be changed easily : either by holding the Option key when launching ...
C1 session best practices
When you are using Capture One session, Peakto will ingest your files from the data stored in the C1 database. So if you make some changes in your session, directly using the finder and if you want to see your changes in Peakto, you have to: 1) ...
Volume is online but catatogs on that volume appear offline
There are situations where a volume has been improperly ejected. When the volume is mounted again, the mount point of the previous time is still hanging around, and macOS cannot reuse it. As a result it will allocate a new mount point that has a ...
Migration to Adobe Lightroom 2023 and Peakto
Good news, Peakto is fully compatible with the new version of Lightroom 2023 on the first day of launch. Backup At first, before upgrading Lightroom, be sure to have a full backup of your catalogs. It can be a Time Machine backup or Lightroom ...
Preview quality in Peakto for CaptureOne catalogs
If you are a CaptureOne user and have added some C1 catalogs to Peakto you have probably noticed that the quality of the previews is lower than for other catalogs. Peakto uses the previews computed by the cataloging apps to generate its own previews ...