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Set up local intelligence

Asset Grove downloads three components that run on your Mac:

  • Grove Vision creates captions and keywords for photos and videos (about 3.1 GB).
  • Grove Listen creates speech transcripts for audio and video (about 220 MB).
  • Grove Find powers natural-language search over completed analysis (about 20 MB).

Prepare the components​

  1. On the Local intelligence setup step, review the hardware check.
  2. Keep the default storage location, or select Choose Storage to use another folder or drive.
  3. If the location needs renewed permission, select Authorize and choose it again.
  4. Select Prepare Local Intelligence.
  5. Continue to library setup after preparation begins. Downloads can continue in the background.

If internal storage is tight, choose an external location before starting. Keep the drive connected when Asset Grove runs analysis or search.

:::note First launch The first time Grove Vision loads, preparation can take up to three minutes before analysis begins. :::

You can review or rebuild components later in Asset Grove > Settings > Intelligence.