User Guide

Pitara user guide is under development, but you can ask any quesrions by contacting us.

1 - Adding photo for search

Access the settings dialog box from the Settings menu.

Settings Dialog

Add photo folders that you want Pitara to index. Click the Add button.

Add Photo Folder

2 - How to export photos from Pitara

You can export photos from search results for printing or sharing purposes.

Select one or more photos from the search results then right-click to select different Export options. Or simply click CTRL+C to export selected photos. You can also export the top 50 or top 100 photos from search results without selecting any specific one.

To change the location of the export folder go to Settings.

Export Photos

3 - Excluding certain folders from search

You can exclude certain folders from showing up in search results. Once those folders are added to the exclusion list in Pitara, they will not be indexed.

Here is how you do it –

Exclude Folder

Access the Settings dialog from the Settings menu.

Settings Dialog

4 - Sample searches for learning

Some of the sample searches are listed here for your learning – Sample searches

5 - Allowed list of keywords

Check the list of possible keywords that you can use in Pitara here – Allowed keywords

6 - Deleting photos

Deleting photos moves photos to the Recycle Bin of your computer. You can select one or more photos then right-click and choose the "Delete Selected photos" option. You can also use the keyboard DEL button.

Delete Photos

7 - Viewing logs

  1. Click the Help menu.
  2. Select "Logs" to open the log file.

8 - Resetting the index

You should generally not need to reset the Index, but in the rare case that you have to do so, please follow these steps:

Note: Deleting Index doesn't delete your photos, it only deletes the index that Pitara created about your photos.

  1. Close Pitara
  2. Click WIN+R to run the command
  3. Type – %localappdata%/Pitara to open the folder where Pitara keeps its application data including index
  4. Delete the "Index" folder completely
  5. Relaunch Pitara

9 - Enabling debug logs

  1. Close Pitara
  2. Click WIN+R to run the command
  3. Type – %localappdata%\Pitara to open the folder where Pitara keeps its data
  4. Create an empty file called "debug.txt" inside the Pitara location
  5. Relaunch Pitara

10 - My question is not answered here

Check if your question is answered in Frequently asked questions.

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