Culling and Persistence

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Culling and Persistence

“Culling” is RawCull’s core job: attach a rating/status to each RAW file so the photographer can filter down to keepers and export just those. This document covers the model that owns that decision, how it’s filtered for display, and how it’s saved to disk.

The model: `CullingModel`

CullingModel (Model/ViewModels/CullingModel.swift) is a @MainActor @Observable class, constructed exactly once by RawCullViewModel (var cullingModel = CullingModel() — the comment above it says explicitly “This is the only place CullingModel is initialised”). It holds:

Ratings on RawCull

Culling and Persistence

Culling and Persistence

The model: CullingModel

The model: `CullingModel`