What Poof! never does to your photos¶
Your photos are the most important thing you own in Poof!. These are the rules it follows.
It never changes or deletes your original photos¶
- Scanning a folder only reads the files and makes previews in Poof!'s own workspace.
- Edits, crops, backgrounds and collages are saved as new versions in Poof!'s workspace. The original file stays exactly as it was: same picture, same name, same date.
- Rejecting, skipping or marking a photo Not used is a choice saved in Poof!, never a deletion.
- Photos you choose with Choose photos… or New listing are copied into Poof!. The files on your Mac are left where they were.
It moves files only through the reviewed Organize step¶
Poof! moves photo files in exactly one case: you connected a sorting folder named 00_SORT or
00_to_sort, sorted its photos into items, and pressed Finish sorting or Move files into
item folders (see Organize item folders). Then:
- you see the plan first;
- each file is checked before and after it moves;
- a file that is already there is never replaced, and duplicates are never deleted;
- photos you didn't sort stay where they were.
Scanning never moves anything.
It uses the Trash only when you ask¶
Files go to the Mac's Trash only when you press a trash button or confirm Move to Trash…. Poof! never empties the Trash, and Undo or the Trash page restores files. See Trash and Undo.
It writes a sidecar only when you save one¶
For camera RAW photos, Camera Raw settings can be saved as a sidecar file (an .xmp file) beside
the original. Poof! writes one only when you press Save RAW settings beside original in the
photo editor. If a sidecar with different settings is already there, Poof! does not overwrite it.
The RAW file itself is never changed.