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Wizard: the guided way to do a first run

The Wizard walks one job from folder to finished in a fixed order, asking one question per step and showing the result before anything moves. It is the same engine as the individual screens — nothing it does is unavailable elsewhere — so it is the safest place to learn what the app does to files.

What this does to your files

Nothing moves until the last step. Choosing a folder, scanning it and looking at the preview are all read-only — you can run the Wizard to the final screen purely to find out what is in a folder, then close it.

At the FOLDER HANDLING step you choose Copy (originals stay exactly where they are) or Move. Nothing is deleted either way, and the run is undoable afterwards.

Choosing the job

ActionFree

The first step is which job you are doing, not which folder. The choices map one-to-one onto the screens in the sidebar, so picking one here is a shortcut, not a different feature:

  • Choose a folder structure and whether to copy or move your files — the Organize job. See Organize.
  • Batch rename files using date and camera metadata — see Rename.
  • Combine multiple folders into one library, skipping duplicates — see Merge.
  • Define your events — trips and days split by time range.Pro
  • Cloud export → verified archive — the Exit Cloud Kit path for a Google Takeout or iCloud export.
  • Blurry shots → review list — see Blurry.

FOLDER TO SCAN

Drop a folder here or click to browseFree

The folder the job reads. Dropping a folder is enough; there is no import step and nothing is copied into the app. For a cloud export the panel is labelled CLOUD EXPORT FOLDER and expects the unzipped export, not the zip.

FILE PREVIEWFree

What the scan found, before any choice about where it goes: the count, the types, and the files with no usable capture date. Read this number first — it is the honest size of the job, and it is the one to check against what you expected the folder to contain.

FOLDER STRUCTURE

Structure presetsFree

The shape of the destination tree — year, year and month, and the other dated layouts. Three presets are available on Free; the rest, along with custom templates and the city and country tokens, are Pro. Whichever you pick, the preview below redraws with your own files in it.

Everything in one folderFree

No subfolders at all: all photos land flat in the destination — simple and fast. Useful when the point of the run is the renaming or the de-duplication rather than the tree.

DESTINATION FOLDER

DestinationFree

Where the organised library is built. It should not be inside the folder being scanned. If you are moving rather than copying, this is the disk that needs the space.

FOLDER HANDLING

Copy / MoveFree

The only step that decides what happens to your originals. Copy is the one to use on a first run, on a memory card, or on anything you do not have a second copy of: the source folder is not written to at all. Move frees the space, and is undoable from the summary.

CLEAN UP

Blurry Photos / Screenshots / duplicatesFree

Optional passes the run can make on the way through. They produce a review list, never a deletion: everything is flagged for you to confirm, and anything you keep simply stays. Reviewing is free and uncapped; the Free tier limits how many files you can act on.

FIND WITH AI

Add reference photosElite

The Find a Person step, offered inside the Wizard for the case where the job is "pull out everyone who is in these photos". The face work runs on your computer and nothing is uploaded — see Find a Person for the whole screen.

Running it

BackFree

Every step is reversible until the run starts. Going back does not lose the scan, so trying three structures against the same folder costs nothing.

Free tier limitFree

When a scan is larger than the Free allowance the Wizard says so up front — Free tier handles 100 per batch — you can start now — rather than stopping at file 101 with an error. The plan you are looking at is the full one; only the carrying out is capped.

UndoFree

The last run is undoable from the summary, and every file it touched is listed in Activity with where it came from and where it went.

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