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What an odd coincidence, I was just looking up if there was a new version of Darktable available. Slightly off-topic, but can anyone recommend a good app for c

What an odd coincidence, I was just looking up if there was a new version of Darktable available. Slightly off-topic, but can anyone recommend a good app for consolidating all your pictures from different sources? (macOS) I have pictures on Dropbox, Facebook, and a huge removable drive. I want to view all of these pictures in one place in chronological order. I have 50,000+ pictures and it is so overwhelming where to even begin. :-/ I can't seem to get darktable to do this do smoothly for me.

abtinf 7y ago
The answer used to be Picasa. Thanks google.
- sfuller808 7y ago
  RIP.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  Killing Picasa was one of the worst things google did.
decasteve 7y ago
Have you tried digiKam?
- kilroy123 7y ago
  I haven't even heard of this before. This looks very promising. Thank you!
benjaminl 7y ago
Depending on your neeeds, both Adobe Lightroom and Google Photos will do this. Adobe finally made Adobe Lightroom sync your library with the cloud. So you can now have all your photos from on all your devices.
shantly 7y ago
Same but I’m willing to copy them all to one place. Bonus if it ingests sources and does the copying for me, but in some kind of sane or simply flat file layout. Difficulty: must support live photos, and videos, too, and no cloud crap (or I’d just put it all in iCloud).
kejaed 7y ago
I’m a happy user of iCloud Photos for this exact reason, 40k+ photos from 2005 to today. Having the ability to access all of them from any of my devices is just great.
Terretta 7y ago
> can anyone recommend a good app for consolidating all your pictures from different sources? (macOS) If you’re under 2TB, iCloud Photos supports all formats including RAW. If you’re over 2TB, Flickr Pro. // It’s not there yet, but third party tools that integrate with Photos and use non-destructive “edits” are now approaching the usability of Aperture, barring the ability to have 5 levels of selectivity (e.g. marking photos in multiple passes from 1 - 5 stars, for rapidly paring down a large shoot).
- CharlesW 7y ago
  > It’s not there yet, but third party tools that integrate with Photos and use non-destructive “edits” are now approaching the usability of Aperture… Do you have any recommendations? I'm very familar with Lightroom, but am trying to reduce my use of "rented" software.
  - ymolodtsov 7y ago
    You should have a look at RAW Power.
  - timrichard 7y ago
    I’m not familiar with Darkroom, but also wanted to avoid the Adobe rented software scene. I’ve been using Luminar, which is excellent for photo organisation, Raw develop with wide camera support, and advanced editing. It’s a traditional pricing model rather than a subscription. https://skylum.com/luminar https://skylum.com/luminar
- jsjohnst 7y ago
  > If you’re over 2TB, Flickr Pro. Despite being a formerly avid paying user of Flickr since 2005, I can’t disagree with this more.
mceachen 7y ago
Solving this exact situation of disarray is why I built my company. https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
- e12e 7y ago
  Looks interesting. No price information? It's a little unclear; do you provide hosting/backup of image data (not just metadata/previews) on your servers?
  - mceachen 7y ago
    Your data and metadata stays on servers you own. PhotoStructure is software, not SaaS, in other words. PhotoStructure is free during the beta, which will be ending early next year. There will be both free and paid subscription tiers.
- kilroy123 7y ago
  This looks like _exactly_ what I want. Is this an open-source project?
  - mceachen 7y ago
    See this: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/#how-else-is-photostructure-different https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/...
    - roryokane 7y ago
      TL;DR: Not open-source, but the author promises to open-source it if the company fails. Parts are already open-source: https://github.com/photostructure https://github.com/photostructure. Also, the app is free while it’s in beta, but will eventually cost money.
e12e 7y ago
I don't have a ready answer - but in general the type of software you're looking for is digital asset management (DAM). There are some open source solutions in this space, but AFAIK no really great ones. You could just use bitkeeper (now ope source) for just kerping track of files - it's said to handle binary files better than git. I suppose you already have a Mac or two - I'm curious if anyone use icloud with only free software? Is it possible without any Apple devices - and would it even make sense to try?
brudgers 7y ago
I have 37,000+ images in my Darktable database. I rebuilt it from scratch last month. I hooked up each disk and let it chug away. + Tip: If you have: . | |---Pictures | |---dir1 |---dir2 |---dir3 |---dir4 |---dir5 ... |---dirn Don't select Pictures with the recursive option. The import will run in a single thread. Instead select dir1,dir2,dir3...dirn all at once. Then the import will run in as many threads as are available. The number of available threads Darktable can use is set by the config menu. You can select more directories than you have threads available. I saw several orders of magnitude speedup in the import. All those threads kept the CPU running. All that running CPU kept the IO flowing. + Advice: Work in two stages. Get all the images locally first. Download from Dropbox and Facebook onto that big disk. Then import them. Once they are local, you can manage them, back them up, etc.

abtinf 7y ago

The answer used to be Picasa. Thanks google.

sfuller808 7y ago
RIP.
Ididntdothis 7y ago
Killing Picasa was one of the worst things google did.

decasteve 7y ago

Have you tried digiKam?

kilroy123 7y ago
I haven't even heard of this before. This looks very promising. Thank you!

benjaminl 7y ago

Depending on your neeeds, both Adobe Lightroom and Google Photos will do this. Adobe finally made Adobe Lightroom sync your library with the cloud. So you can now have all your photos from on all your devices.

shantly 7y ago

Same but I’m willing to copy them all to one place. Bonus if it ingests sources and does the copying for me, but in some kind of sane or simply flat file layout. Difficulty: must support live photos, and videos, too, and no cloud crap (or I’d just put it all in iCloud).

kejaed 7y ago

I’m a happy user of iCloud Photos for this exact reason, 40k+ photos from 2005 to today. Having the ability to access all of them from any of my devices is just great.

Terretta 7y ago

> can anyone recommend a good app for consolidating all your pictures from different sources? (macOS) If you’re under 2TB, iCloud Photos supports all formats including RAW. If you’re over 2TB, Flickr Pro. // It’s not there yet, but third party tools that integrate with Photos and use non-destructive “edits” are now approaching the usability of Aperture, barring the ability to have 5 levels of selectivity (e.g. marking photos in multiple passes from 1 - 5 stars, for rapidly paring down a large shoot).

CharlesW 7y ago
> It’s not there yet, but third party tools that integrate with Photos and use non-destructive “edits” are now approaching the usability of Aperture… Do you have any recommendations? I'm very familar with Lightroom, but am trying to reduce my use of "rented" software.
- ymolodtsov 7y ago
  You should have a look at RAW Power.
- timrichard 7y ago
  I’m not familiar with Darkroom, but also wanted to avoid the Adobe rented software scene. I’ve been using Luminar, which is excellent for photo organisation, Raw develop with wide camera support, and advanced editing. It’s a traditional pricing model rather than a subscription. https://skylum.com/luminar https://skylum.com/luminar
jsjohnst 7y ago
> If you’re over 2TB, Flickr Pro. Despite being a formerly avid paying user of Flickr since 2005, I can’t disagree with this more.

mceachen 7y ago

Solving this exact situation of disarray is why I built my company. https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

e12e 7y ago
Looks interesting. No price information? It's a little unclear; do you provide hosting/backup of image data (not just metadata/previews) on your servers?
- mceachen 7y ago
  Your data and metadata stays on servers you own. PhotoStructure is software, not SaaS, in other words. PhotoStructure is free during the beta, which will be ending early next year. There will be both free and paid subscription tiers.
kilroy123 7y ago
This looks like _exactly_ what I want. Is this an open-source project?
- mceachen 7y ago
  See this: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/#how-else-is-photostructure-different https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/...
  - roryokane 7y ago
    TL;DR: Not open-source, but the author promises to open-source it if the company fails. Parts are already open-source: https://github.com/photostructure https://github.com/photostructure. Also, the app is free while it’s in beta, but will eventually cost money.

e12e 7y ago

I don't have a ready answer - but in general the type of software you're looking for is digital asset management (DAM). There are some open source solutions in this space, but AFAIK no really great ones. You could just use bitkeeper (now ope source) for just kerping track of files - it's said to handle binary files better than git. I suppose you already have a Mac or two - I'm curious if anyone use icloud with only free software? Is it possible without any Apple devices - and would it even make sense to try?

brudgers 7y ago

I have 37,000+ images in my Darktable database. I rebuilt it from scratch last month. I hooked up each disk and let it chug away. + Tip: If you have: . | |---Pictures | |---dir1 |---dir2 |---dir3 |---dir4 |---dir5 ... |---dirn Don't select Pictures with the recursive option. The import will run in a single thread. Instead select dir1,dir2,dir3...dirn all at once. Then the import will run in as many threads as are available. The number of available threads Darktable can use is set by the config menu. You can select more directories than you have threads available. I saw several orders of magnitude speedup in the import. All those threads kept the CPU running. All that running CPU kept the IO flowing. + Advice: Work in two stages. Get all the images locally first. Download from Dropbox and Facebook onto that big disk. Then import them. Once they are local, you can manage them, back them up, etc.