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How do you organise 18,500 images on a hard drive? (alien.top)
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Hello ๐Ÿ‘‹

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I put mine on a Synology station. The higher-end ones can run their photo organisation software, that auto-recognizes faces (mostly). This lets you sort by date, face, and some rudimentary categories (pet, landscape, food etc.). Also has phone apps so you can see your photos there, which is neat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I assume you're talking about the built-in Synology Photos app? I have a Synology NAS and keep putting off the decision for how I'm going to handle photo hosting. Ideally I'd want:

  • a unified archive (old stuff on random hard drives from both me and my wife, plus exporting/linking each of our icloud photo libraries and google photo libraries)
  • some kind of structured browsing, organizing things by timestamp (and including that in the filename) is fine
  • some kind of facial recognition, ideally a semi-manual approach that does its best on its own and then prompts for or accepts manual corrections
  • optionally, some kind of semi-manual de-duplication for near-identical images
  • optionally, an integrated way to share content, e.g. so I can text a friend a link to a specific album behind some kind of user authentication system