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remote SSH: nas
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get familiar with the project. The idea is to copy the data from mac to nas (here). I am tryign to update the database using
@
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
and then run
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
for a day to move the data. Review and see is you understand everything.
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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Thought
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash...
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES...
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screenpipe_sync_files.sh
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pipes
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archive.db
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
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Thought
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
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2h
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
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Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
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ocr_text
table has no...
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screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
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No Problems
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
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screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
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Thought
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating vision tables ✓ 0m00s
creating audio tables ✓ 0m01s
Error: in prepare, no such column: id
S idx_ocr_text_install_pk ON ocr_text(install_id, id);
error here ---^
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3...
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U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
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pipes
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app_settings.json
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
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Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
4m
2m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"...
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Thought
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks;"
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) FROM video_chunks;"
After this, both counts should match (2607), and you can re-run the migration script:
bash
/volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
You may need to repeat this for other tables if they have the same issue. The migration script processes tables in order:
video_chunks frames elements ocr_text ui_events meetings
(vision) then
speakers speaker_embeddings audio_chunks audio_transcriptions audio_tags
(audio).
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_sync.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
ok lets forget on install id for a while. Given the
@
screenpipe_sync.sh
why do I get error like this when ruynning the same scritp from nas. lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] install_id: 2ff6574c-4272-4dbf-a20b-434b024c65fb
[2026-05-12 20:19:37] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Frame data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
Audio files: OK (2507 files, 267M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
audio_chunks: 2507
audio_transcriptions: 226
audio_tags: 0
speakers: 15 (all-time)
speaker_embeddings: 58 (all-time)
[+00m01s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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Thought
for 1s
I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
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Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data
: You may need to use
INSERT OR REPLACE
logic or consolidate the data
The migration script assumes clean data where
(install_id, id)
is unique. Your database has pre-existing install_id data that violates this assumption.
Feedback submitted
Your recent terminal commands:
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
legacy-20260511|1|2
legacy-20260511|2|2
legacy-20260511|3|2
legacy-20260511|4|2
legacy-20260511|5|2
legacy-20260511|6|2
legacy-20260511|9|4
legacy-20260511|10|4
legacy-20260511|11|4
legacy-20260511|12|4
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$ sqlite3 /volume1/screenpipe/archive.db "SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
4009|2607
Adm1n@DXP4800PLUS-B5F8:/volume1/screenpipe$
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Thought
for 1s
The issue is clear now:
video_chunks
has 4009 rows but only 2607 unique
(install_id, id)
combinations. Each ID appears 2-4 times, which violates the unique constraint.
This likely happened from multiple sync runs without proper deduplication. To fix this, you need to remove the duplicate rows before the migration can proceed:
bash
# Delete duplicates, keeping the first occurrence for each (install_id, id)
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"
DELETE FROM video_chunks
WHERE rowid NOT IN (
SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM video_chunks
GROUP BY install_id, id
);
"
# Verify cleanup...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT install_id, id, COUNT(*) FROM video_chunks GROUP BY install_id, id HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 LIMIT 10;"
# Check total rows vs unique (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT COUNT(*) as total, COUNT(DISTINCT install_id || '|' || id) as unique_combos FROM video_chunks;"
The fix depends on what you find:
If duplicates have the same actual data
: Delete the duplicates keeping one row per
(install_id, id)
If duplicates are from different syncs with different data...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
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Thought
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I'll read the two scripts and explore the project structure to understand the data migration setup.
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh and screenpipe_sync.sh
Analyzed
/volume1/screenpipe
Thought
for 2s
I understand the setup. Here's my analysis:
Project Overview
Project Overview
You're migrating Screenpipe data from Mac to NAS. The workflow:
1.
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
- One-time database schema migration:
Adds
install_id
column to all synced tables (prevents ID collisions across reinstalls)
Creates
_installs
registry table
Rebuilds FTS (full-text search) tables with new schema
Optional but recommended
- running this on the NAS is 5-10x faster than letting
screenpipe_sync.sh
do it inline
Idempotent (safe to re-run)
2.
screenpipe_sync.sh
- Daily sync script:
Copies SQLite data from Mac (
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
) to NAS (
/Volumes/screenpipe/archive.db
)
Syncs vision tables (frames, elements, OCR, UI events) and audio tables (chunks, transcriptions, speakers)
Copies frame data files and audio MP4s via rsync
Uses
install_id
(UUID) to handle multiple screenpipe installations safely
Schema-drift tolerant (auto-adds new columns)
Run per date:
./screenpipe_sync.sh
(yesterday) or
./screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-12
Current NAS State
Current NAS State
archive.db
- 12.9 GB (main archive)
archive.db-bak
- 11.1 GB (backup)
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
- 12.9 GB (pre-migration backup)
db.sqlite
- 3.7 GB (appears to be source DB already copied?)
data/
- empty (will hold frame data by date)
logs/
- contains sync logs
Your Plan
Your Plan
Run
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
first to update the schema quickly on the NAS, then run
screenpipe_sync.sh
daily to incrementally move data from Mac to NAS. This makes sense - the migration is the heavy operation, then daily syncs are lightweight.
Does this match your understanding, or do you have questions about any part?
Feedback submitted
Your modified files:
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
/volume1/screenpipe
+
1
-
1
Your recent terminal commands:
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
$ /volume1/screenpipe/screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
@
terminal:bash
why is there erro like that?
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
but contains duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to diagnose:
Searched
video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations in the
video_chunks
table, violating the unique constraint the script is trying to create.
Let me check the database state to understand the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3.*video_chunks in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data, but there are duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. The script tries to create a unique index on these columns, which fails due to the duplicates.
Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
SELECT.*install_id.*FROM in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to the duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. Let me check the database to see the duplicate data:
Searched
install_id in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, it fails.
This likely happened from a previous sync that added data without proper deduplication. Let me check the database to identify the duplicates:
Searched
sqlite3 in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
video_chunks
table already has
install_id
data with duplicate
(install_id, id)
combinations. When the script tries to create a unique index on these columns, SQLite rejects it due to existing duplicates.
This likely happened from a previous sync or partial migration. To diagnose, you need to check the database:
bash
# Check what install_id values exist in video_chunks
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db
"SELECT DISTINCT install_id FROM video_chunks LIMIT 10;"
# Find the duplicate (install_id, id) combinations
sqlite3
/volume1/screenpipe/archive.db...
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U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
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pipes
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app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
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Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
14m
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1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 56
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
14m
7m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
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Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
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15h
2h
14m
7m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index....
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
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Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
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15h
2h
14m
7m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas....
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15h
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14m
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1m
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)...
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15h
2h
14m
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1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)...
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Thought
for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted...
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The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
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Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
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The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an...
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for 1s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column, but the script tries to create a unique index on
(install_id, id)
. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column, but
ocr_text
likely has a different primary key structure.
Let me check the ocr_text table schema in your source database:
Searched
ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (*.sh)
Thought
for 2s
The error occurs because the script tries to create a unique index on
ocr_text(install_id, id)
, but the
ocr_text
table doesn't have an
id
column. The script assumes all tables have an
id
column as their primary key, but
ocr_text
likely has a different structure.
Check the actual schema of your
ocr_text
table:
bash
sqlite3
~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite
"PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
This will show what columns exist. Based on the script's usage,
ocr_text
likely uses
frame_id
as a foreign key and may not have its own
id
primary key (it might use SQLite's implicit
rowid
).
The fix would be to modify the script to handle tables without an
id
column. Options:
Skip the unique index for tables without
id
and use a different constraint
Use
rowid
instead of
id
for tables that don't have an explicit
id
column
What does the schema show for
ocr_text
?
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ sqlite3 ~/.screenpipe/db.sqlite "PRAGMA table_info(ocr_text);"
0|frame_id|INTEGER|1||0
1|text|TEXT|1||0
2|text_json|TEXT|0||0
3|app_name|TEXT|1|''|0
4|ocr_engine|TEXT|1|'unknown'|0
5|window_name|TEXT|0||0
6|focused|BOOLEAN|0|FALSE|0
7|text_length|INTEGER|0||0
8|sync_id|TEXT|0||0
9|synced_at|DATETIME|0||0
10|redacted_at|INTEGER|0||0
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
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Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
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+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
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Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
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+
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-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
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Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thought
for 3s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me make the necessary changes:
Error while editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
SRC_MEETINGS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM meetings WHERE date(meeting_start) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ACHUNKS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ATRANS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_transcriptions WHERE audio_chunk_id IN (SELECT id FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
');"
)
Thought
for 1s
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+
5
-
3
printf
" %-20s %s\n"
"audio_transcriptions:"
"
$SRC_ATRANS
"
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[
"
$SRC_FRAMES
"
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screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
db.sqlite-shm
db.sqlite-wal
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
U
screenpipe_sync copy.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_old.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_updated.sh
U
screenpipe_sync.sh
M
screenpipe.db
Outline Section
Outline
Outline
Timeline Section
Timeline
Timeline
remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read...
|
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DeepWiki
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Remote Explorer
Extensions (⇧⌘X)
Explorer
Explorer
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
screenpipe [SSH: nas]
#recycle
app
data
lib
screenpipe_sync_db.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
db.sqlite-shm
db.sqlite-wal
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
U
screenpipe_sync copy.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_old.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_updated.sh
U
screenpipe_sync.sh
M
screenpipe.db
Outline Section
Outline
Outline
Timeline Section
Timeline
Timeline
remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${...
|
Windsurf
|
screenpipe [SSH: nas] — screenpipe_sync_files.sh — screenpipe [SSH: nas] — screenpipe_sync_files.sh — Untracked...
|
NULL
|
31344
|
|
31345
|
Explorer (⌥⌘E)
Search (⇧⌘F)
Source Control (⇧⌘ Explorer (⌥⌘E)
Search (⇧⌘F)
Source Control (⇧⌘G) - 19 pending changes
19
Codemaps
DeepWiki
Run and Debug
Remote Explorer
Extensions (⇧⌘X)
Explorer
Explorer
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
screenpipe [SSH: nas]
#recycle
app
data
lib
screenpipe_sync_db.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
db.sqlite-shm
db.sqlite-wal
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
U
screenpipe_sync copy.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_old.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_updated.sh
U
screenpipe_sync.sh
M
screenpipe.db
Outline Section
Outline
Outline
Timeline Section
Timeline
Timeline
remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought...
|
Windsurf
|
screenpipe [SSH: nas] — screenpipe_sync_files.sh — screenpipe [SSH: nas] — screenpipe_sync_files.sh — Untracked...
|
NULL
|
31345
|
|
31346
|
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Search (⇧⌘F)
Source Control (⇧⌘ Explorer (⌥⌘E)
Search (⇧⌘F)
Source Control (⇧⌘G) - 19 pending changes
19
Codemaps
DeepWiki
Run and Debug
Remote Explorer
Extensions (⇧⌘X)
Explorer
Explorer
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
Explorer Section: screenpipe [SSH: nas]
screenpipe [SSH: nas]
#recycle
app
data
lib
screenpipe_sync_db.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
db.sqlite-shm
db.sqlite-wal
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
U
screenpipe_sync copy.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_old.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_updated.sh
U
screenpipe_sync.sh
M
screenpipe.db
Outline Section
Outline
Outline
Timeline Section
Timeline
Timeline
remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thought
for 3s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me make the necessary changes:
Error while editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
SRC_MEETINGS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM meetings WHERE date(meeting_start) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ACHUNKS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ATRANS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_transcriptions WHERE audio_chunk_id IN (SELECT id FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
');"
)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
5
-
3
printf
" %-20s %s\n"
"audio_transcriptions:"
"
$SRC_ATRANS
"
if
[
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15h
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"...
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15h
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Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl...
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15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
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Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thought
for 3s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me make the necessary changes:
Error while editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
SRC_MEETINGS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM meetings WHERE date(meeting_start) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ACHUNKS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ATRANS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_transcriptions WHERE audio_chunk_id IN (SELECT id FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
');"
)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
5
-
3
printf
" %-20s %s\n"
"audio_transcriptions:"
"
$SRC_ATRANS
"
if
[
"
$SRC_FRAMES
"
-eq
"0"
] && [
"
$SRC_ACHUNKS
"
-eq
"0"
];
then
log
"No frames or audio chunks found for
$TARGET_DATE
— skipping DB sync"
DB_ALREADY_SYNCED
=
true...
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U
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Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
15m
2m
1m
Show More
Thought
for 1s
The
ocr_text
table has no
id
column - its primary key is
frame_id
. The script incorrectly assumes all tables have an
id
column when creating the unique index.
The fix is in
screenpipe_sync.sh
around line 363-370. The loop needs to check if the table has an
id
column before creating the index:
bash
# Re-run install_id + index setup so freshly-created tables get them too.
for
tbl
in
"${
ALL_SYNC_TABLES
[
@
]}"
;
do
HAS_COL
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='install_id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_COL
"
=
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"ALTER TABLE
$tbl
ADD COLUMN install_id TEXT;"
fi
# Check if table has 'id' column before creating index
HAS_ID
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_table_info('
$tbl
') WHERE name='id';"
)
if
[
"
$HAS_ID
"
-gt
"0"
];
then
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, id);"
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
The same fix applies to
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
at line 106. Both scripts have the same bug.
You'll need to switch to Code mode to apply these changes.
Feedback submitted
fix it
Expand content to scroll
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
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Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thought
for 3s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me make the necessary changes:
Error while editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
SRC_MEETINGS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM meetings WHERE date(meeting_start) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ACHUNKS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ATRANS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_transcriptions WHERE audio_chunk_id IN (SELECT id FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
');"
)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
5
-
3
printf
" %-20s %s\n"
"audio_transcriptions:"...
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data
lib
screenpipe_sync_db.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched...
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app
data
lib
screenpipe_sync_db.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_files.sh
U
screenpipe_sync_helpers.sh
U
logs
pipes
.gitignore
app_settings.json
archive.db
archive.db-bak
U
archive.db.bak-pre-installid
U
db.sqlite
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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0
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Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync...
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
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0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
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LF
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Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
screenpipe (Git) - Synchronize Changes
No Problems
0
0
Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
4
Notifications
Windsurf - Settings
Teams, Daily: 0% quota used · Weekly: 68% quota used
Shell Script
LF
UTF-8
Spaces: 2
Ln 7, Col 1 (100 selected)
Screen Reader Optimized
Info: Setting up SSH Host (details): Creating local forwarding server...
Clear
Refactor Sync Script
15h
2h
16m
4m
2m
1m
Show More
Thoughts
I'll fix both scripts to handle tables without an
id
column.
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh and screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
done
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
+
8
-
1
else
# For tables without 'id', use rowid instead
sqlite3
"
$NAS_DB
"
"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_${
tbl
}_install_pk ON ${
tbl
}(install_id, rowid);"
fi
fi
Thoughts
Fixed both scripts. They now check if a table has an
id
column before creating the unique index. If the table lacks an
id
column (like
ocr_text
), it uses
rowid
instead.
Changes made:
screenpipe_sync.sh
(line 369-375): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
screenpipe_fts_migrate.sh
(line 106-113): Added check for
id
column, fallback to
rowid
You can now retry running the sync script from your Mac.
Feedback submitted
lukas@Lukas-Kovaliks-MacBook-Pro-Jiminny ~/.screenpipe $ ~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] Screenpipe sync starting for: 2026-05-11
[2026-05-12 20:58:45] ========================================
[+00m00s] ▶ Preflight checks
Source DB: OK (4.2G)
NAS mount: OK /Volumes/screenpipe
Archive DB: will be created
Data dir: OK (283 files, 318M)
[+00m00s] ▶ Counting source rows for 2026-05-11
frames: 6857
elements: 672129
ui_events: 7063
ocr_text: 2332
meetings: 1
[+00m00s] ▶ Initialising tables (CREATE IF NOT EXISTS)
creating tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m00s] ▶ Reconciling NAS schema with source
schema: video_chunks ✓ in sync
schema: frames ✓ in sync
schema: elements ✓ in sync
schema: ocr_text ✓ in sync
schema: ui_events ✓ in sync
schema: meetings ✓ in sync
creating indexes ✓ 0m01s
creating FTS tables ✓ 0m00s
[+00m02s] ▶ Syncing data for 2026-05-11
video_chunks ✓ 0m00s
frames (6857 rows) ✓ 2m37s
ocr_text (2332 rows) ⠋ Parse error near line 3: ambiguous column name: app_name
acted_at") SELECT "frame_id","text","text_json","app_name","ocr_engine","win
error here ---^
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Thought
for 3s
The error occurs because the
ocr_text
INSERT uses a JOIN with
frames
, and both tables have an
app_name
column. The script uses unqualified column names, causing SQLite to be ambiguous about which table's
app_name
to select.
The script's comment assumes no column name collisions, but
app_name
exists in both tables. The fix is to qualify all columns in the SELECT with the table alias
o.
.
Let me check the current INSERT statement:
Error while viewing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
#L320-334
Thoughts
Searched
ocr_text.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 2s
Searched
INSERT.*ocr_text in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
-
1
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO nas.ocr_text
SELECT o.* FROM main.ocr_text o
SELECT o.frame_id, o.text, o.text_json, o.app_name, o.ocr_engine, o.window_name, o.focused, o.text_length, o.sync_id, o.synced_at, o.redacted_at
FROM main.ocr_text o
JOIN main.frames f ON o.frame_id = f.id
Thoughts
Fixed the
ocr_text
INSERT by explicitly listing columns instead of using
o.*
, which caused the ambiguous column name error with
app_name
existing in both
ocr_text
and
frames
.
Let me also check the
elements
table INSERT since it also uses a JOIN with frames and might have the same issue:
Searched
elements.*INSERT in /volume1/screenpipe (screenpipe_sync.sh)
Thought
for 1s
The script you're running is
~/.screenpipe/screenpipe_sync.sh
on your Mac, but I've been editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
on the NAS. These are different files.
You need to either:
Copy the fixed script from NAS to Mac, or
Apply the same fix to your Mac's script
The fix for the
ocr_text
ambiguous column error is to change:
bash
SELECT
o.
*
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
to:
bash
SELECT
o.frame_id,
o.text,
o.text_json,
o.app_name,
o.ocr_engine,
o.window_name,
o.focused,
o.text_length,
o.sync_id,
o.synced_at,
o.redacted_at
FROM
main.ocr_text
o
Which script are you actually running on your Mac - the one in
~/.screenpipe/
?
Feedback submitted
Now add also audio data. 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,
evicted_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE "audio_transcriptions" (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
audio_chunk_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
offset_index INTEGER NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
transcription TEXT NOT NULL,
device TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
is_input_device BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
speaker_id INTEGER,
transcription_engine TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Whisper',
start_time REAL,
end_time REAL,
text_length INTEGER,
sync_id TEXT,
synced_at DATETIME,
redacted_at INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY (audio_chunk_id) REFERENCES audio_chunks(id)
) CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE audio_transcriptions_fts USING fts5 (
transcription,
device,
speaker_id,
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
) This is still not included in the script (mac to nas) but it exists on original app (mac). Add it to the script. Also move logs (~/.screenpipe/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log) to /logs/screenpipe.2026-05-09.0.log on nas.
Expand content to scroll
Thought
for 1s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me first check the current script structure:
Read
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thought
for 3s
I'll add audio data syncing and log copying to the script. Let me make the necessary changes:
Error while editing
screenpipe_sync.sh
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
SRC_MEETINGS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM meetings WHERE date(meeting_start) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ACHUNKS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';"
)
SRC_ATRANS
=
$(
sqlite3
"
$DB_SRC
"
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM audio_transcriptions WHERE audio_chunk_id IN (SELECT id FROM audio_chunks WHERE date(timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
');"
)
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
5
-
3
printf
" %-20s %s\n"
"audio_transcriptions:"
"
$SRC_ATRANS
"
if
[
"
$SRC_FRAMES
"
-eq
"0"
] && [
"
$SRC_ACHUNKS
"
-eq
"0"
];
then
log
"No frames or audio chunks found for
$TARGET_DATE
— skipping DB sync"
DB_ALREADY_SYNCED
=
true
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
2
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS nas.meetings AS SELECT * FROM main.meetings WHERE 0;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS nas.audio_chunks AS SELECT * FROM main.audio_chunks WHERE 0;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS nas.audio_transcriptions AS SELECT * FROM main.audio_transcriptions WHERE 0;
DETACH nas;
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
3
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS nas.idx_video_chunks_device ON video_chunks(device_name);
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS nas.idx_audio_chunks_timestamp ON audio_chunks(timestamp);
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS nas.idx_audio_trans_chunk_id ON audio_transcriptions(audio_chunk_id);
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS nas.idx_audio_trans_timestamp ON audio_transcriptions(timestamp);
DETACH nas;
Thought
for 1s
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
8
content='audio_transcriptions',
content_rowid='id',
tokenize='unicode61'
);
DETACH nas;
Thoughts
screenpipe_sync.sh
+
16
WHERE date(c.timestamp) = '
$TARGET_DATE
';
DETACH nas;
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remote SSH: nas
SSH: nas
screenpipe (Git) - master*, Checkout Branch/Tag...
master*
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Forwarded Ports: 41257, 36613, 33153, 45375
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Clear...
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