Ente's per-file ML data (face detections + CLIP embeddings) is fetched,
decrypted, and cached under cacheDirectory/mldata/, never in
metadata.json. A new mldata-fetch module holds the decrypt+gunzip, reused
by the metadata backup and the library. MLDataStore writes one payload
file per fileID by rename (present means complete) and derives clip.json
+ clip.f32 (embeddings packed as one Float32Array, one-read load). On open
the index is rebuilt whenever it disagrees with the payloads in either
direction — an id it names is gone, or an embedding-bearing payload on
disk is absent from it — so a crash between writing payloads and rewriting
the index self-heals instead of dropping those embeddings. Appended to as
payloads arrive; fetched.json records each file's fetch-time updationTime.
Model: opus-4-8
Adds the in-process read surface, served from RAM with args-object signatures: albums (list/byName/byID), photos (byID/records -> plain PhotoRecord[]), thin Album/Photo wrappers, and timeline.groups (day/week/month) with a PhotoFilter (albumID/text/fileTypes/hasLocation/includeArchived; hidden excluded). Week keys use ISO YYYY-Www; each file appears once per group, newest first. Built on the #43 snapshot projection; no network.
Model: opus-4-8
Adds three independent bounded request pools — metadata (10 in flight), content (5), thumbnails (25), each overridable — with on-demand-before-background priority and in-flight dedup (a shared key runs once); an idle pool never lends slots, and retries run inside a slot. Self-contained module; the content cache wires it into the library later.
Model: opus-4-8
Adds a synchronous, key-free snapshot() returning LibrarySnapshot (one PhotoRecord per fileID, deduped, newest first) with edited-name/time precedence (pubMagicMetadata over basic metadata) in milliseconds, plus AlbumRecord (favorites identified by type). subscribe({onChange}) delivers LibraryChange (changed/removed albums and files, refreshedAt) only when a refresh changes something; unsubscribe stops delivery. Built on the existing refresh loop; served from RAM, safe to send over IPC.
Model: opus-4-8
Library.open loads metadata.json and serves reads from RAM: an empty cache awaits the first refresh, an existing cache returns at once and refreshes in the background so an unreachable server never stalls open(). A background timer refreshes every refreshIntervalSeconds (default 3), diffing only changed albums via the resumable cursor+tombstone enumerators and rewriting metadata.json only when something changed. A refresh failure is invisible to reads and surfaced via status()/onProgress; a failed save keeps status().lastError set and retries until one lands, so a stale disk is never masked. No sync()/refresh()/serverReachable surface; status() and close() included.
Model: opus-4-8
Adds the metadata.json store: loads whole into RAM with id-lookup Maps, rewrites whole through the exported fsync atomic writer (temp, fsync, rename, dir fsync); a missing, unparseable, or wrong-schema file loads as empty (it is a cache); directory 0700, file 0600. No lock file, no public sync().
Model: opus-4-8
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