Reference
Privacy
Skagway keeps the catalog and the thumbnail cache on this Mac. There is no account and no cloud sync. It does not send usage analytics or library data anywhere. Optional update checks are off until you turn them on, and a check only asks whether a newer build exists.
Where your data lives
Four things stay on disk, and only the first three are Skagway’s. Your videos are the fourth, and they stay in the folders you chose.
- The catalog is the .machii file. Add Videos on the welcome screen puts it in the video folder you picked. Use standard location on this Mac, from Advanced Options… or File → Change Library Location…, puts it under ~/Library/Application Support/Skagway/. Choose Folder… puts it in a folder you pick.
- Thumbnails, filmstrips, and storyboard collages live in that library’s cache. The cache is under ~/Library/Caches/Skagway, in a Skagway-cache folder next to the library, or in a folder you picked. Opening one library never reads another library’s cache.
- Settings are ordinary macOS preferences on this Mac.
- Video files stay at the paths you gave Skagway. A move you start with Move Files… is the way a file changes folders. Nothing in playback, tagging, or export uploads them.
Network and updates
- Skagway does not send telemetry, analytics, library paths, play history, or browsing behavior.
- Automatically check for updates, under Settings → Library, is off by default. When it is on, Skagway occasionally asks downloads.machiilabs.com whether a newer build exists. Check for Updates… does that same check when you choose it. Neither one uploads the library or your videos.
- Choose Help → Skagway Help. That opens this manual. Contact Support… opens an email to support@machiilabs.com. You send that mail yourself.
Getting help
- Email support@machiilabs.com. A person reads it.
- If a bug report would help, you write it and you attach what you choose to attach. Skagway does not assemble a report or send one on its own.