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Settings

The Settings panel collects every configuration option of the running application. Open it via:

  • The top menu bar: DroneField → Settings…
  • Or the keyboard shortcut: ⌘,

The panel has 8 tabs: Account, Device, Map, License, Update, Privacy, Clean Up and Diagnostics. The Log out button at the bottom of the panel is available on every tab.

Account

Section titled “Account”

Details about the signed-in user:

  • Name
  • Email (read-only, your portal account identifier)
  • User ID (internal numeric ID)

The Customer Portal link opens the portal in your browser.

Log out (bottom of the Settings panel):

  • Revokes your session on the server (best effort — it also works offline)
  • Removes the sign-in token stored on this computer
  • Returns to the sign-in screen

Your projects stay on disk; you simply sign in again next time.

Device

Section titled “Device”

Details of the currently running machine, mirrored from the portal’s Devices page:

  • Device UUID — unique identifier
  • Name — OS-supplied computer name
  • Status — Active / Inactive / Suspended / Revoked
  • Last heartbeat — updates every ~15 minutes
  • Hardware — e.g. MacBookPro18,3 — Apple M3 Pro
  • RAM — e.g. 32 GB

Units & language

Section titled “Units & language”

Two more settings live on the Device tab:

  • Units — System default, Metric (ha, m, L/ha) or Imperial (ac, ft, gal/ac). Every distance, area and application rate shown in the application follows this setting. The switch changes the display only and applies immediately — exported files always use metric units.
  • Language — change the application language (System default or one of 9 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Romanian). The full interface — including the AI analysis report — is translated. Click Apply; the language change takes effect after restarting DroneField (the app offers Quit DroneField right away, or Later).

Project folder

Section titled “Project folder”

The Device tab also has a separate section: Project folder. Choose where DroneField stores your projects.

  • Current location — by default ~/Documents/DroneField (called Container in the app)
  • Change… — a folder picker opens; pick a new location (suggested: ~/DroneField)
  • Reset to Container — go back to the default ~/Documents/DroneField folder

When you change locations, DroneField offers to move existing projects to the new folder (using rename, not copy — fast).

Map

Section titled “Map”

Choose the map provider. See Map basics.

Two sections:

  • Map provider — Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap
  • Default style — Satellite or BaseMap
  • Active combination — shows the resulting source

Changes take effect immediately on every open map.

License

Section titled “License”

Current licence state:

  • Mode — Active subscription, Credit-based, Offline (cached token) or License info not available
  • Expires — next check or expiry date
  • Remaining credits — usable project credits
  • Last refresh — last sync time with the server

The licence is fetched when you sign in and checked again before processing. Refresh license forces an immediate resync — useful right after a portal purchase.

Update

Section titled “Update”

Version checks:

  • Current version — e.g. 27.0
  • New version — e.g. 27.1 (if any)
  • Status — Up to date or New version available

Check for updates queries manually.

The application auto-checks every 4 hours — when a new version appears, a banner shows at the top of the main screen. See Updates.

Privacy

Section titled “Privacy”

The telemetry switch:

  • Send anonymous usage statistics (toggle)
  • Explanation below

Two read-only documents can also be opened here:

  • View End User License Agreement — re-read the EULA you accepted
  • Open-source components — third-party libraries and their licenses

See Privacy & telemetry.

Licence validation and update checking work even with telemetry off — those are not privacy-sensitive.

Diagnostics

Section titled “Diagnostics”

Technical details for troubleshooting:

  • Debug mode (toggle) — after every processing run, writes a readable debug.log to <Project>/Exports/
  • Telemetry queue (pending) — events waiting to send
  • API base URL — e.g. https://api.dronefield.app/v1
  • Build — DEBUG or RELEASE

Flush telemetry now flushes queued events immediately.

When you raise a support ticket, paste the Diagnostics info — it dramatically speeds up triage.

Clean Up

Section titled “Clean Up”

Frees disk space used by old projects:

  • Storage overview — project count, total space used, and the size of orthomosaic and multispectral files (Recalculate refreshes it)
  • Delete entire projects — pick a date in Older than: and click Delete old projects: every project older than that date is deleted with its whole folder
  • Delete only orthomosaic and multispectral files — pick a date and click Delete ortho/MS files: only the processed files (orthomosaic, MS bands) are removed; the DSM, point cloud, polygons.kml, project record, imported images and flight route are kept, and the project can be reprocessed later

Both show how much space will be freed and ask for confirmation.

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