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How do you organise 18,500 images on a hard drive? (alien.top)
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Hello 👋

I'm feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work I created for my-self, my files are a mess.

  • How much time you spend just sorting and cleaning all you images?
  • Do you have the same folder structure for all you storage locations? (hard drives, cloud,...)
  • How many files do you have?
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem I have with all the softwares listed on the link, is that they need to run on a server. I want it on my hard drive

My problem: what if there is a selfie of my sister at her marriage with my grandma. I want to easily find this picture by searching "My sister Marriage" and by searching "Grandma"

How would you go about doing that? or I'm asking for too much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Might i suggest DigiKam ? Its free and open source, you can create albums and assign tags to pictures(like you said wedding 2006 or grandma), there is a tool for facial recognition but i dont have any experience with that. It creates few databases for the albums and i have no idea of it will handle that large amount of pictures but you can give it a try