staticsync - essentials

[David Ryan]

Hi all,

I think I'm *finally* ready to go all in on RS - thanks to all involved for their great work on it.  One thing I need but haven't fully investigated yet is the use of staticsync and would appreciate any pointers please.

I've watched the videos and understand what it does and more or less how it does it, but there seems to be a lot of functionality there that is over and above the basics and I want to make sure that I'm not doing something silly with it and just sticking with the basic concept of storing the original files in one single non-RS place..

Background - I have a set of images stored (and backed up, etc . . .) on a couple of removable drives. They live in folders called \GOLDEN\Holidays \GOLDEN\Events, etc . . . The holiday folder is split down into years like \GOLDEN\Holidays\2025 and the events folder is split down into categories like \GOLDEN\Events\Birthdays\David.  As per the all-caps title, these are my reference or gold copies.

Up to now I have imported these into RS and done things like adding tags, faces, etc . . ., but RS (by design) makes these changes to the copies in the local file store.  I now want it to make the changes to the files in \GOLDEN.

My plan is to enable staticsync, and set it to not ingest the files.  This should result in the official copies/original files remaining in \GOLDEN and the previews and other versions of the file being stored in the local RS filestore.

I don't understand/ am not too worried about the auto-categorisation based on folder names that is mentioned in the videos.

Has anyone followed the approach above and got it working to their satisfaction in RS?

Thanks,

David