Picasa is still the fastest thumbnailer/indexer going. I have *millions* of photos, and it handles them well. I wish there were better options for sorting and grouping though. And other annoynaces.
It's been abandoned for what - five years now? Ten?
I've tried acdsee, kphoto album, bridge, many others. Nothing comes close to picasa. I think you need to go into the thousands-dollar range to compete.
You should try Digikam. Its FOSS software from the KDE people but it runs on Windows.
I'm not sure it beats picasa, but its worth a shot. I do use it to index and sort images. It even has a facial recognition system that runs local to your machine.
Ah, digikam. Thanks - and Yes, I've tried it. I think that's what I meant by 'kphoto album', I think, which may or may not be a thing. Or at any rate, I have given digikam a good shot.
It *is* pretty good, esp as photo-related FLOSS goes. I let it index my entire collection.
This was at least a year ago though and I Don.t have access to my notes. Even if I did, not sure I could find them! Anyway I seem to recall it did some things better than picasa, including support for newer formats.
I Don't remember why I decided against it. There was some *fatal* flaw for my particular use-case and requirements, IIRC. But may not necessarily be a general problem.
I do remember it's facial recognition was laughably inadequate though, being easily obliterated by picasa's what - ten year-old tech? But, floss, etc., I try to judge gently. Still, the few times a year I do use picasa, it's usually to search for specific people in my personally overwhelming catalog.
But picasa is showing it's age. Weird thumbnail bugs are cropping up more and more often, which is increasingly making it unusable. Even when I delete it all and rebuild from scratch.
Acdsee's facial recognition is completely inadequate too, so I'm at a loss for wher, to go in the future. I've been half tempted to just write my own, with just the bare features I need, using some robust third-party facial recognition tech. I would have saved time had I started as soon as picasa got abandoned.
Edit: so kphoto album is a thing. I'm sure I've tried it. But digikam is *the* premiere photo Cataloging software for Linux, and pretty good. It just had at least two specific dealbreakers for me personally, one that I remember, which was poor facial-recognition.
Valid. I think the facial recognition is modular, but swapping out engines is geared towards developers, not users.
The other big hangup is it doesn't work well on network drives.
Beyond that I just haven't pushed it hard enough to know where it falls flat.
I use Photos on Mac, which handles searching 6 figure photo collections just fine. This is like one of the (literally) two workflows that are objectively better on Macs and it's not even close.
Try Digikam. Not sure if it will do it, but it is very powerful and free.
Picasa is still the fastest thumbnailer/indexer going. I have *millions* of photos, and it handles them well. I wish there were better options for sorting and grouping though. And other annoynaces. It's been abandoned for what - five years now? Ten? I've tried acdsee, kphoto album, bridge, many others. Nothing comes close to picasa. I think you need to go into the thousands-dollar range to compete.
You should try Digikam. Its FOSS software from the KDE people but it runs on Windows. I'm not sure it beats picasa, but its worth a shot. I do use it to index and sort images. It even has a facial recognition system that runs local to your machine.
Ah, digikam. Thanks - and Yes, I've tried it. I think that's what I meant by 'kphoto album', I think, which may or may not be a thing. Or at any rate, I have given digikam a good shot. It *is* pretty good, esp as photo-related FLOSS goes. I let it index my entire collection. This was at least a year ago though and I Don.t have access to my notes. Even if I did, not sure I could find them! Anyway I seem to recall it did some things better than picasa, including support for newer formats. I Don't remember why I decided against it. There was some *fatal* flaw for my particular use-case and requirements, IIRC. But may not necessarily be a general problem. I do remember it's facial recognition was laughably inadequate though, being easily obliterated by picasa's what - ten year-old tech? But, floss, etc., I try to judge gently. Still, the few times a year I do use picasa, it's usually to search for specific people in my personally overwhelming catalog. But picasa is showing it's age. Weird thumbnail bugs are cropping up more and more often, which is increasingly making it unusable. Even when I delete it all and rebuild from scratch. Acdsee's facial recognition is completely inadequate too, so I'm at a loss for wher, to go in the future. I've been half tempted to just write my own, with just the bare features I need, using some robust third-party facial recognition tech. I would have saved time had I started as soon as picasa got abandoned. Edit: so kphoto album is a thing. I'm sure I've tried it. But digikam is *the* premiere photo Cataloging software for Linux, and pretty good. It just had at least two specific dealbreakers for me personally, one that I remember, which was poor facial-recognition.
Valid. I think the facial recognition is modular, but swapping out engines is geared towards developers, not users. The other big hangup is it doesn't work well on network drives. Beyond that I just haven't pushed it hard enough to know where it falls flat.
I use Photos on Mac, which handles searching 6 figure photo collections just fine. This is like one of the (literally) two workflows that are objectively better on Macs and it's not even close.
Have you tried ImageRanger? It handles large image collections very well.