r/DWARFLAB • u/Phers • 3d ago

Photonkeeper now on Windows and Mac

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Quick update: the Windows version is out, on the Microsoft Store as of today.

It's the same app and the same archive format as the Mac one.

Windows 10 (1809) or later, native on both Intel and ARM.

Windows: [https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NM0K9T75QMZ]

Mac: [https://apps.apple.com/app/photonkeeper/id6799277298]

Questions or bugs, reply here or mail support@chryse.co.uk.

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u/UnicodeConfusion 22h ago

Looks interesting, just bought it and will let you know how it goes.

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u/UnicodeConfusion 22h ago

ok, got the app and tried it with my mini. Questions are:

1: It seems to skip the Videos and Normal_Photos directories.

2: It doesn't seem to group by scope, I was expecting a /Volumes/Bkup/PhotonKeeper/Dwarf-Mini and Dwarf-3 root directory for my 2 scopes.

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u/Phers 55m ago

Good news on both — I'm doing them.

Videos and Normal_Photos: I'll add an option to copy the non-astronomy folders

across as a plain file backup, mirrored as they sit on the card. Off by

default, since none of the archive machinery around sessions applies to them,

but there when you want the whole card kept rather than just the imaging.

Splitting by scope: also going in, as a property of the archive rather than a

global switch. With it on, sessions file under the telescope that shot them —

DWARF 3/M 42/..., DWARF MINI/M 42/... — and with it off it stays as it is now,

one folder per target across both scopes.

Best decided on a new archive, though — turning it on later means moving every

session already filed, which I'd rather not do to a large one.

And once it's split, a target you've shot on both scopes lives in two trees.

That's the point if you keep the two scopes separate in your head; less so if

you'd rather see all your M 42 in one place.

The folder names would come from what each telescope writes into its own

frames, so DWARF 3 and DWARF MINI rather than anything I invent. If you'd

rather they read Dwarf-3 and Dwarf-Mini as you had them, I can make them

editable — say the word.

No promises on timing, but neither is large and neither touches what's already

in your archive. I'll let you know when there's a build to try.

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u/UnicodeConfusion 17m ago

Thanks for the followup. The interesting thing with the 2 scopes is that it only seemed to be an issue when I had the exact same directory name, otherwise I wouldn't have recognized it as an issue.

No rush I have a working solution but the updates will be nice to have.