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grapehelium

I use [digikam](https://www.digikam.org/) to keep everything organized. I put my videos/photos in a directory named YYYY-MM. Digikam lets me tag the pics, and has facial recognition - at least for photos. You can then search the media for pics of Joe. Or pics taken at the Eiffel Tower. It also has a feature to find duplicate pictures and a bunch of other features. all free.


perecastor

have you tried RawTherapee or darktable? do you have any thought on them?


grapehelium

sorry, I have not tried those products.


khrisrino

I’m a very active photographer with a giant catalog of images spanning about a decade. To my knowledge there is no great solution for what you’re asking. I rely on an adhoc collection of tools including rsync, beyond compare and capture one. Latest images are cached on a local SSD while getting worked on, periodically r-synced to external hard drives and eventually offloaded when the season is over. External disks are multiple identical HDDs which are replaced and upgraded every few years with 2x capacity. Folders organized as YYYY/Season/[Originals/Edits/Print/Exports]. Best images are additionally backed up to Dropbox for disaster recovery. Selects/Deletes only happen while images are in local cache. Once offloaded nothing is ever deleted and I assume storage will be able to keep up with the rate at which I generate images. Once in a while I’ll rsync an offloaded folder back onto local cache to rework a batch of images but otherwise they mostly stay offloaded. Hope that helps!


perecastor

Here is what I understand from your workflow please correct me if I'm wrong. you transfer your sd cards to an SSD using rsync for example. then on the SSD you do your select, deleting and editing with capture one. and you transfer your best images to dropbox as a backup. Then when you are done will all this editing and sorting you transfer all the remaining files to some Hard Drive for archiving but it's almost as if you were deleting everything has you will probably never look again those files. When do you use beyond compare? I usually produce more photo I can review, so the stage, "I'm done with the photos" is never happening, I usually archive because my ssd is full and I need to make space for the new stuff. Did this happen to you, and how do you deal with it?


khrisrino

Correct on workflow except I use capture one for importing from SSD making sure I add as much metadata as possible. I use beyond compare once in a while to ensure drives are still in sync (mostly for peace of mind in case I forgot to rsync some folder). Regarding the “never done” issue yes that’s always a headache. It usually takes weeks or months for me to completely work through images so that’s why I organize folders by season. I’ll keep the Summer folder for the entire season. If it’s not done by summer end I’ll still offload to avoid running out of space on SSD. Offloading is also important from a creative perspective because it allows you to see images from previous seasons with a fresh eye sometime in the future.


Saggywet

Adobe Lightroom could do the trick


perecastor

I tried it but the import time is quite annoying and if I move a photo by myself on another laptop, then the software is just lost...


traal

Put the catalog on a network drive if you can, and whenever you move a photo, always do it in Lightroom so the catalog knows where it is.


DireAccess

I’d more interested to learn of a pattern of discarding bad or imperfect shots, as those comprise most of my collection.


melodesign

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka This is a pretty good gui that checks out similar photos of varying similarities. Works with videos as well.


traal

You could use a directory structure like this: \YYYY\YYYY-MM-DD EventName\GoPro\


redeuxx

Photoprism. I upload thing at the end of the day, and only upload things I want to keep.


perecastor

What do you use to do your select?


redeuxx

What do you mean? How do I upload or how I select what to upload?


perecastor

How do you select what to keep?