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Files

The application takes great care not to pollute the computer it is installed. To that extent, it isolates and places all the files it downloads, installs and handles within a single folder.

Application's folder​

It installs the Python and Node.js runtimes, the extensions, their dependencies, the tensor files within a dedicated folder, the "Application's folder", which is located in the Operating System traditional directory, namely:

  • Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Picteus,
  • macOS: /Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Picteus,

where <user> is the user's login.

The application offers the "Picteus > Application Folder" menu entry which opens that opens the files' explorer to that location.

This folder holds the following resources:

  • the SQLite regular SQL database database.db ;
  • the Chroma vectorial database in folder chroma ;
  • the runtimes folder, which contains a node and a python folder, which are additional runtimes for the extensions ;
  • the models folder, which will contain the downloaded tensor files required by some extension resorting to AI models ;
  • the repositories folder, which is an internal folder that will contain repositories dedicated to some extensions.

Your images files​

Picteus will access to the image files that are stored on the computer, hence you do not need to change their location or copy them elsewhere. You will need to declare image repositories within the application.