Every phone you sign in on works on your account’s one Photos index. A phone that is reset, replaced or loses the app takes nothing with it: the next phone you sign in on carries on with the same library. This page says what happens to indexes left from earlier, and what to do.
- Install the app and sign in with the same Opensolr account.
- The phone takes the account’s Photos index by itself, reads it once into its own copy, and adds its own photos. A file that is the same on both phones counts once.
Your tags, people and words come back from the index. See one library on several phones.
Phones used to get an index each. An account that still holds several Photos indexes from then keeps them all: every phone works on the same one of them, and the others stay in the account, untouched, until you delete them.
Opensolr checks every Opensolr Photos index. One that no phone has synced with for 30 days (no request, no photo written) is considered left behind, and its owner gets one email, once per phone, saying which phone it was and how many photos it holds. Under section 9.2 of the Terms, an index that stays unused may be removed; the check itself removes nothing.
Open Opensolr Photos on it. One sync, and the index is in use again; the notice is cleared and comes back only after another 30 quiet days.
Delete its photos from your account in the control panel: the index is named photos_…__dense and the email names the phone. They stop counting against your account's indexes and disk space. Sign the phone out in Account › Devices too.
- The app never deletes an index. Not on sign-out, not on reinstall, not on update.
- The photos themselves were never in the index, only their words, tags and details. Deleting an index deletes nothing on any phone.
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