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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
screenpipe_sync.sh
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I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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sql
SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and...
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
screenpipe_sync.sh
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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sql
SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and
vision_tags
to the sync (audio_tags already pulled them in by FK), and a small
_installs
registry table so you can list installs and their first-seen date.
To your meta-question —
yes, fixing this later would be painful
. FTS rebuild on a multi-GB archive is the expensive part, and if you waited until you actually had a reinstall, you'd also be missing data in FTS during the gap. Doing it now means one slow run today, then nothing to worry about.
Ran 3 commands, created 2 files, read a file
Ran 3 commands, created 2 files, read a file
Sample query patterns for the new schema, for your reference when writing consumers:
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sql
-- Full-text search across all installs:
SELECT
f
.
timestamp
,
f
.
app_name
,
f
.
window_name
,
f
.
full_text
FROM
frames_fts fts
JOIN
frames f
ON
f
.
install_id
=
fts
.
install_id
AND
f
.
id
=
fts
.
source_id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup OR retro'
ORDER
BY
f
.
timestamp
DESC
LIMIT
50
;
-- Search transcriptions for a specific install only:
SELECT
t
.
timestamp
,
t
.
transcription
,
s
.
name
AS
speaker
FROM
audio_transcriptions_fts fts
JOIN
audio_transcriptions t
ON
t
.
install_id
=
fts
.
install_id
AND
t
.
id
=
fts
.
source_id
LEFT
JOIN
speakers s
ON
s
.
install_id
=
t
.
install_id
AND
s
.
id
=
t
.
speaker_id
WHERE
audio_transcriptions_fts
MATCH
'jiminny'
AND
fts
.
install_id
=
(
SELECT
install_id
FROM
_installs
ORDER
BY
install_seq
DESC
LIMIT
1
)
;
-- LIKE queries (for hyphenated tickets like JY-) work the same as before,
-- just add install_id filtering if needed:
SELECT
timestamp
,
app_name
,
full_text
FROM
frames
WHERE
full_text
LIKE
'%JY-20458%'
AND
install_id
=
'<uuid>'
ORDER
BY
timestamp
DESC
;
-- List installs:
.
/
screenpipe_sync
.
sh
--list-installs
A few notes about behaviour:
The first run after replacing the script will be slow because of the FTS rebuild from the entire existing
archive.db
. Subsequent runs are normal speed. Worth running it manually once (not via cron) so you see the progress and confirm it completes.
The legacy data (everything synced before this change) gets tagged
legacy-YYYYMMDD
— it's all from the same install_id since you haven't reinstalled yet, just labeled retroactively. After the migration runs, that tag appears in
--list-installs
alongside your real install UUID.
Next, the retention script — separate file, manual run, dry-run by default. I'll send that in a moment. Want me to make it
--apply
to actually delete (with a confirmation prompt for the first run), or skip the prompt and trust the dry-run output?
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You said: Will it be fast enough?
Will it be fast enough? I'm concerned about the speed and performance. If there is an additional table, how would that search and actual relation look like? Give me some overview of what would connect each table to which, and how the search flow would look like.
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Claude responded: Good question.
Architected schema diagram illustrating FTS-to-base table relationships
Architected schema diagram illustrating FTS-to-base table relationships
Good question. Let me address performance first, then walk through the schema.
Performance reality check:
Three things to consider — query speed, storage, and rebuild cost.
Query speed: essentially unchanged from the old setup.
Both old and new FTS need to map a
MATCH
hit back to the base row. Old way: FTS rowid was the source id, lookup via primary key. New way: FTS row has
install_id
+
source_id
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
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ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
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Is there ability….SMR mount access inconsistency betwea What ie tho hoct cwitch licanScreenoioe svnc database attachment east swimming outing with DaniScreenpipe data sync and retention management v-d1sable-audno:# old:# new:# npx screenpipealatest record --disable-audio --ignored-wincnox screenoipealatest record --1qnored-windows "Boostero1d" -Restart screenpipe. After a day or so, check that audio data isflowing:sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "SELECT COUNT(* FROM audio csqlite3 ~.screenpipe/ db.sqlite "SELECT COUNT(* FROM audio tRollbackIf vou need to abandon the migration before re-running sync:ssh Adm1n@192.168.0.242cp /volume1/Test/screenpipe/archive.db.bak-pre-installid /volAne reveroeola screenoipe sunc.sh. Younaventlostanything from the source DB.Tradeofi to be aware ofThe installs.last seen column gets touched on every syncrun. which means the file's mtime changes dailv — fine, but if vouhave a backup tool watching for changes (Restic), it will see a"modified" archive every day even when no real data changed.That's the existing behavior anyway since sync adds rows daily, sonothing new.Want me to write the retent1al one thatcleans up ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite.the data folder.andlogsolder than 7 davs)2 T have the design from earlier — separate fle.dry-run default. --apply to actually delete.Screenpipe svncOnen in fermYou're out of extra usage • Your limit resets at 7:20 PMBuy moreWrite a message…Opus 47 AdaptivevClaudo ic Aland can make mictakec Plonce doScreenpipe fts migrate • SH• lue 1z May 10.20.43copyspeaker 1d UNINDEXED, 1nstall 1d UNINDEXED, SOUrce 1d UNINDEXED174207if table exists "frames": thenrun with timerINSERT INTO frames ftsful text, app name, window name. browser urinstalb id. source id)SELECT fub textaop name, window name. browser uni, instabl id. idFROM frames WHERE full text TS NOT NULL AND full text l= 11.if table exists "elements". thenrun with cimerINSERT INTO elements fts(text, role, install id, source id, frame idSELECT text, role, install id, id, frame idGPOM elomonte WHEPE toyt TS NOT NIlI.iT caole exists "ul events, chelINSERT INTO U1nts ttstext content, app name, window title, element name, install 1d.source 1dsELECl text content.app name, window title, element name, install id,FROM u1 events WHERE text content is Not NULL,INSERT INTO audio transcriptions fts(transcription. device, speaker id install id source 1d)SELECT transcription, COALESCE(device,''), speaker_id, install_id, idFROM audio transcrintions WHERE transcrintion IS NOT NULL AND transeriotion le 11.echo "Migration complete.""Final DB size: $(du -sh "$NAS_DB" | cut -f1)"echo "sanity-check queries you can run:echo"sqlite3 $NAS DB 'SELECT * FROM installs:'"sglite3 $NAS DB \"SELECT sql FROM sglite master WHERE name='frameechosalite3 $NAS DB 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM frames fts:'*echo"salite3 $NAS DB 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio transcriptions fts:'...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an...
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id...
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
PASTED
Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
Copy to clipboard
sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
Copy to clipboard
sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
screenpipe_sync.sh
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You said: I don't like that.
You said: I don't like that.
I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and
vision_tags
to the sync (audio_tags already pulled them in by FK), and a small
_installs
registry table so you can list installs and their first-seen date.
To your meta-question —
yes, fixing this later would be painful
. FTS rebuild on a multi-GB archive is the expensive part, and if you waited until you actually had a reinstall, you'd also be missing data in FTS during the gap. Doing it now means one slow run today, then nothing to worry about.
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Sample query patterns for the new schema, for your reference when writing consumers:
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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You said: ok lets add install_id.
You said: ok lets add install_id.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
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compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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You said: ok lets add install_id.
You said: ok lets add install_id.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
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compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
screenpipe_sync.sh
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You said: I don't like that.
You said: I don't like that.
I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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sql
SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and
vision_tags
to the sync (audio_tags already pulled them in by FK), and a small
_installs
registry table so you can list installs and their first-seen date.
To your meta-question —
yes, fixing this later would be painful
. FTS rebuild on a multi-GB archive is the expensive part, and if you waited until you actually had a reinstall, you'd also be missing data in FTS during the gap. Doing it now means one slow run today, then nothing to worry about.
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Sample query patterns for the new schema, for your reference when writing consumers:
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sql
-- Full-text search across all installs:
SELECT
f
.
timestamp
,
f
.
app_name
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f...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it....
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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You said: ok lets add install_id.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
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You said: I don't like that.
You said: I don't like that.
I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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sql
SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and
vision_tags
to the sync (audio_tags already pulled them in by FK), and a small
_installs
registry table so you can list installs and their first-seen date.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source...
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better....
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
Copy to clipboard
sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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You said: ok lets add install_id.
You said: ok lets add install_id.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
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audio_transcriptions
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
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compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
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You said: I don't like that.
You said: I don't like that.
I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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f
.
*
FROM
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to...
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 149782 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-42-53.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 30604 10 May 14:44 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-25.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 193020 10 May 21:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-48.mp4...
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Claude responded: Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether…
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Analyzed three technical challenges and identified clarifying questions needed
Good plan to tackle these together — they interact (retention timing depends on sync timing, audio sync depends on schema shape, ID strategy depends on whether reinstalls have already happened). Before I touch the script, a few things:
Issue 1 — ID collisions / archive rotation
Has a reinstall already happened, or is the current
archive.db
still from one continuous install? If collisions already exist I need to handle that first; if not, we have a clean slate.
Quarterly rotation works, but it doesn't actually solve reinstalls
within
a quarter. A cleaner option that I'd lean toward: add an
install_id
column (UUID generated once and stored in a tiny
_meta
table in the source DB) to every synced table, and make
(install_id, id)
the logical key. FK joins just gain one extra predicate. Reinstall → new install_id → no collisions, ever. You can still rotate the archive DB quarterly for file-size reasons, but it's no longer load-bearing.
Do you ever run cross-period queries (e.g. "every frame mentioning JY-20458 across all time")? That answers whether quarterly sharding is acceptable or whether one growing DB is better.
Issue 2 — Mac-side retention
Your launch command already has
--retention-days 7
. Is that not actually deleting anything, or do you want a separate scripted retention you can trust/observe independently?
Should retention also wipe the matching
~/.screenpipe/data/data/YYYY-MM-DD/
folders, or only DB rows? (CLI flag does both I believe; a script should match.)
Run order matters: sync writes
yesterday
, retention deletes
>7 days old
— no overlap, but I'd still chain them (sync → retention → log) in one cron entry so a failed sync blocks the delete. OK with that?
Issue 3 — Audio
Your current launch flag is
--disable-audio
, so right now there's no audio data to sync. Are you planning to enable it, or is this just to future-proof the script?
I need the audio schema. Could you run this and paste the output:
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sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription"
And:
ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
so I can see what audio files look like on disk alongside the mp4 frames.
Once I have those, I'll restructure the script in one go rather than piecemeal.
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You said: ok lets add install_id.
You said: ok lets add install_id.
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lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite ".schema" | grep -iE -A 20 "audio|transcription" CREATE TABLE audio_chunks ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, file_path TEXT NOT NULL , timestamp TIMESTAMP, sync_id TEXT, machine_id TEXT, synced_at DATETIME, ev
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ok lets add install_id. Lets add separate script deleting data again from data and it should also remove logs and data. Make it manual script for now. I will remove --disable-audio from alias and run it without. I wan to have audio as well. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~ $ ls ~/.screenpipe/data/data/$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d)/ | head
compact_monitor_1_1778411210025.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778413422547.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778436664801.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437267451.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437569681.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778437873507.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438175846.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438477299.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778438780686.mp4
compact_monitor_1_1778439082442.mp4 Inside ~/,screenpipe/data there are data like this ... -rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-12.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:48 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-34.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-48-56.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:49 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-19.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-49-41.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-03.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:50 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-26.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4628 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-50-48.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-10.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:51 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-33.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 4620 11 May 16:52 System Audio (output)_2026-05-11_13-51-55.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 9 lukas staff 288 11 May 07:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 lukas staff 64 11 May 15:48 pending-transcriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 29419 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-10-32.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 56479 10 May 14:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-05.mp4
-rw-r--r--@ 1 lukas staff 181831 10 May 14:12 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-11-35.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 91059 10 May 14:43 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-43-25.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 93813 10 May 14:45 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_11-44-55.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 lukas staff 40444 10 May 21:11 soundcore AeroClip (input)_2026-05-10_18-11-18.mp4
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Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Claude responded: Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in ~/.
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Architected multi-install sync with audio support and retention
Good, that clarifies the audio layout — audio files live flat in
~/.screenpipe/data/
with the date in the filename (not in date subdirs like frames), and the schema gives us
audio_chunks
+
audio_transcriptions
+
speakers
+
speaker_embeddings
+
audio_tags
plus the FTS table on transcriptions.
Plan I'll implement:
install_id
: stored as a UUID in
~/.screenpipe/.sync_install_id
— disappears when the directory is wiped (which is what you want on reinstall). Every synced NAS table gets an
install_id TEXT
column and a
UNIQUE(install_id, id)
index. The script auto-migrates the existing NAS archive by adding the column and tagging legacy rows with
legacy-YYYYMMDD
so historical data is still queryable but doesn't conflict with future installs.
Audio sync
: adds
audio_chunks
,
audio_transcriptions
,
speakers
,
speaker_embeddings
,
audio_tags
to the sync pipeline, plus the
audio_transcriptions_fts
index. Audio files go to
$NAS_DATA/<date>/audio/
(sibling to the frames in the same date dir, keeps daily archives self-contained).
Retention
is a separate manual script — dry-run by default,
--apply
to delete. Hits DB rows, frame directories, audio mp4s, and screenpipe logs. Optional
--vacuum
with a warning (screenpipe must be stopped to avoid blocking writes for minutes).
One caveat I'm punting on: the FTS tables use source
id
as
rowid
, so after a reinstall they'd get id-collisions on insert and
INSERT OR IGNORE
would silently skip. Within a single install this is fine; after reinstall you'd fall back to
LIKE
queries on the base tables (still filterable by
install_id
). I noted this in the script. Fixing it properly needs a synthetic rowid scheme which we can do later if you actually hit it.
Let me write both:
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
Updated screenpipe_sync.sh with install_id support and audio sync
screenpipe_sync.sh
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You said: I don't like that.
You said: I don't like that.
I don't like that. It should be solid without id collisions. Wouldn't it be to late if I should fix it later?
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Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Claude responded: You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over.
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
Architected collision-free FTS schema with contentless tables and install tracking
You're right — the FTS tables are the gap I papered over. Let me explain why and fix it properly.
What I missed:
SQLite FTS tables use an
INTEGER rowid
as their primary key. The previous design used the source
id
as that rowid (e.g.
INSERT INTO frames_fts(rowid, ...) VALUES (NEW.id, ...)
). After a reinstall, source IDs reset to 1, and
INSERT OR IGNORE
silently drops them because rowid=1 is already taken. So FTS would only index your most recent install — searching for old transcriptions or OCR text would miss anything from before the reinstall, and there's no way to detect the loss because it fails silently.
Fix:
switch all four FTS tables to fully contentless mode with
install_id
and
source_id
as
UNINDEXED
columns, and let SQLite auto-assign rowids. No collision is possible because each insert gets a fresh rowid. Queries become:
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sql
SELECT
f
.
*
FROM
nas
.
frames f
JOIN
nas
.
frames_fts fts
ON
fts
.
install_id
=
f
.
install_id
AND
fts
.
source_id
=
f
.
id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup'
;
One extra JOIN, but bulletproof.
Migration:
the script detects the old FTS schema on first run, drops + rebuilds the four FTS tables from the base tables. This is the only one-time slow step. After that, every run is normal. The base tables (with all your data) are untouched during the rebuild — only the FTS indexes get regenerated.
I also added
tags
and
vision_tags
to the sync (audio_tags already pulled them in by FK), and a small
_installs
registry table so you can list installs and their first-seen date.
To your meta-question —
yes, fixing this later would be painful
. FTS rebuild on a multi-GB archive is the expensive part, and if you waited until you actually had a reinstall, you'd also be missing data in FTS during the gap. Doing it now means one slow run today, then nothing to worry about.
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Sample query patterns for the new schema, for your reference when writing consumers:
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sql
-- Full-text search across all installs:
SELECT
f
.
timestamp
,
f
.
app_name
,
f
.
window_name
,
f
.
full_text
FROM
frames_fts fts
JOIN
frames f
ON
f
.
install_id
=
fts
.
install_id
AND
f
.
id
=
fts
.
source_id
WHERE
frames_fts
MATCH
'standup OR retro'
ORDER
BY
f
.
timestamp
DESC
LIMIT
50
;
-- Search transcriptions for a specific install only:
SELECT
t
.
timestamp
,
t
.
transcription
,
s
.
name
AS
speaker
FROM
audio_transcriptions_fts fts
JOIN
audio_transcriptions t
ON
t
.
install_id
=
fts
.
install_id
AND
t
.
id
=
fts
.
source_id
LEFT
JOIN
speakers s
ON
s
.
install_id
=
t
.
install_id
AND
s
.
id
=
t
.
speaker_id
WHERE
audio_transcriptions_fts
MATCH
'jiminny'
AND
fts
.
install_id
=
(
SELECT
install_id
FROM
_installs
ORDER
BY
install_seq
DESC
LIMIT
1
)
;
-- LIKE queries (for hyphenated tickets like JY-) work the same as before,
-- just add install_id filtering if needed:
SELECT
timestamp
,
app_name
,
full_text
FROM
frames
WHERE
full_text
LIKE
'%JY-20458%'
AND
install_id
=
'<uuid>'
ORDER
BY
timestamp
DESC
;
-- List installs:
.
/
screenpipe_sync
.
sh
--list-installs
A few notes about behaviour:
The first run after replacing the script will be slow because of the FTS rebuild from the entire existing
archive.db
. Subsequent runs are normal speed. Worth running it manually once (not via cron) so you see the progress and confirm it completes.
The legacy data (everything synced before this change) gets tagged
legacy-YYYYMMDD
— it's all from the same install_id since you haven't reinstalled yet, just labeled retroactively. After the migration runs, that tag appears in
--list-installs
alongside your real install UUID.
Next, the retention script — separate file, manual run, dry-run by default. I'll send that in a moment. Want me to make it
--apply
to actually delete (with a confirmation prompt for the first run), or skip the prompt and trust the dry-run output?
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You said: Will it be fast enough?
You said: Will it be fast enough?
Will it be fast enough? I'm concerned about the speed and performance. If there is an additional table, how would that search and actual relation look like? Give me some overview of what would connect each table to which, and how the search flow would look like.
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Claude responded: Good question.
Claude responded: Good question.
Architected schema diagram illustrating FTS-to-base table relationships
Architected schema diagram illustrating FTS-to-base table relationships
Good question. Let me address performance first, then walk through the schema.
Performance reality check:
Three things to consider — query speed, storage, and rebuild cost.
Query speed: essentially unchanged from the old setup.
Both old and new FTS need to map a
MATCH
hit back to the base row. Old way: FTS rowid was the source id, lookup via primary key. New way: FTS row has
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You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
You said: Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind.
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#!/bin/bash # screenpipe_sync.sh # Syncs Screenpipe SQLite data to a NAS archive database (append-only, no deletions). # Also copies the day's video/frame data folder to the NAS. # # Schema-drift tolerant: if Screenpipe migrations add new columns to the source DB, # the NAS archive gets ALTER TABLE'
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Lets start from the beginning with the fresh mind. There is a script for screenpipe to copy data for day from mac to nas. There are two issues I want to work with. Firsts if I reinstall the mac version it starts from fresh id 1. That causes some issues. How to make sure the data are valid. I don't want some overcomplicated flow. I was thinking about making new db every 3 months. Secodn issue is that I wan to implement cleanup (retention policy) on mac original screenpipe db. I want script that will remove data that are 7 days old or older for example. ANd lastly I want to extedn the script to work with audio as well. What od you need
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