Step 2: Your first start
The first time Sift opens, it asks how it runs, where it keeps its data and who its admin is. To begin, open Sift after you install it.
The second and third questions each have a back button, so you can change an answer before you create the admin. To answer the first two again later, use Settings > General > Run setup again.
How Sift runs
Section titled “How Sift runs”How Sift runs offers two choices:
- This device: Sift keeps your library on the computer you’re installing it on. Choose it the first time you set up Sift.
- Another device: this window opens a Sift library that already runs on a different device. Sift on your phone or another computer says how.
Where Sift keeps its data
Section titled “Where Sift keeps its data”Sift data shows the folder Sift offers for its database, its settings and the files it generates, such as thumbnails. Click Choose this folder to keep it, or Choose a different folder to pick one in Windows’ own folder window.
This folder never holds your photos or videos, and choosing it doesn’t move them. If the folder already holds a Sift library, the button reads Keep this library, and Sift carries on with it.
To move these folders later, use Settings > Folders > Sift data.
Create the admin
Section titled “Create the admin”The last question creates the admin: type a Username, a Password and the password again in Password again, then click the button under them. Sift has no default password, and nothing else in Sift opens until the admin exists.
The admin can see and change everything in Sift, so keep this username and password to yourself. To let another person in, give them a User of their own in Settings > User Management > Guests.
If you forget the password, Saved Cookies and a forgotten password has the way to set a new one on the computer Sift runs on.
What opens next
Section titled “What opens next”Sift opens on Browse, which is empty until you give Sift a folder. Its Add a folder button is the next step, in Step 3: Add your folders.