o/PARASHOOT can watch your backup destinations as files arrive and show you, at a glance, when your cards are safely backed up. This is what turns the icon green.
Real-time file monitoring
In Settings you'll find Real-time file monitoring (marked BETA). When enabled, o/PARASHOOT watches your destinations while your backup software copies, instead of only scanning when you ask to erase. The practical benefits:
The pre-erase check becomes near-instant, because o/PARASHOOT already knows what has arrived.
You get live progress and a clear "everything is backed up" signal — the green icon below.
Enabling it also reveals an option to show copy progress in the menu bar.
What the menu bar icon means
Normal (matches your menu bar, light or dark) — idle, or a copy is still in progress.
Animated — o/PARASHOOT is checking a card against your backups.
Green — every inserted card's footage has fully arrived at your backups. The cards are verified and ready to erase.
Red — Prep mode is on. See Prep Mode.
Green is a readiness signal, not an action: o/PARASHOOT never erases on its own. You still trigger the erase yourself from the menu, your hotkey, or the Stream Deck.
On the Stream Deck
A card key on the Stream Deck shows the same status as a colour:
Gray — no card, or no copy has started.
Blue — the copy is in progress.
Green — fully backed up and ready to erase.
In short: green — on the menu bar or the Stream Deck — means "backed up, safe to erase". It doesn't replace o/PARASHOOT's verification: the same backup check still runs when you erase; real-time monitoring just makes it instant.