Comment by Aurornis
2 days ago
> - "Scan photos I upload" yes/no. No batch processing needed, only affects photos from now on.
This would create a situation where some of the photos have tags and some don’t. Users would forget why the behavior is different across their library.
Their solution? Google it and start trying random suggestions. Toggle it all on and off. Delete everything and start over with rescanning. This gets back to the exact problem they’re trying to avoid.
> - "Scan all missing photos (1,226)" can only be done 3x per year
There is virtually no real world use case where someone would want to stop scanning new photos but also scan all photos but only when they remember to press this specific button. The number of users who would get confused and find themselves in unexpected states of half-scanned libraries would outweigh the number of intentional uses of this feature by 1000:1 or more.
I spent about 30s on those options, but ok, I'll bite.
> Google it and start trying random suggestions.
If the options were indeed as I suggested, why would the top Google result not say "click the very clearly labelled 'scan missing photos' button"?
Google search results are useless when tech companies don't empower users with clear control over their data. Users are reduced to superstitious peasants not because that's their nature, but because they are not given the capability to act otherwise.