On Photoprism Claude, and HEIC Files on a Pi
When I migrated my Photoprism library from an HP Laptop to a Pi5 I found that there was a nine thousand photo hole in the total photo count. It’s when I looked closer that I found that the gap between expected photos and actual photos is down to Photoprism and the Pi5 not playing nicely when it comes to HEIC files.
I decided to experiment with Claude AI as it is flavour of the month and the first advice it gave was “force reindex the entire library”. Anyone who has played with raspberry Pi will know why that was an absurd proposition. I played along anyway and within minutes my Pi was sulking so I went for a walk, on the off chance that it would be ready when I got home. It was still sulking, and worse than that, pings took up to 30 milliseconds or more.