A software personal recommendation question - photo organizer software? I have like fifteen years of convention photos I desperately need to sort out. Requirements:
- Ideally FOSS + works on Linux, willing to consider quality inexpensive Windows options.
- Can operate on files on a network drive
- Duplicate/near-duplicate detection
- Bulk tag/untag
- Keeps it's own metadata store, does NOT rely on file names or folder structure for metadata
- Can handle combo jpeg + CR2 shooting (ie, considers the pair a single item rather than two different files)
- Strongly prefer something with an actual install process rather than 'run this Docker container'
@cocoa it’s been a while since I used it, but I think dark table ticks all those boxes
@cocoa I think shotwell checks all of these but not sure. darktable also has at least most of these features but is not really meant to be organizer software.
@imyxh@weirder.earth yeah darktable is firmly in my brain as 'photo editor', which I already have covered. I'll poke at Shotwell, I think it was pre-installed on one of my Linux distros, but I haven't actually used it much.
@cocoa digikam might be a good match.
@friesen5000 @cocoa we unfortunately do not support CR2 at the moment, sorry!
@cocoa
I have gigabytes of downloaded images from doing genealogy- mostly censuses. I need a way to organize them, also. (Especially if it can read embedded data!)
(I'm using Win10.)
@cocoa sounds like digiKam to me.
@cocoa not sure if it complies with all of your requirements but I like Shotwell