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I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep! Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders

I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep! Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos? Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular operation extremely slow.

brightbeige 1y ago
Same. But I don’t even care to delete the 90%, because storage is cheap. How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.
- dkga 1y ago
  Would be interesting to try some clustering mechanism on the pixels and show only each cluster‘s exemplars.
- nottorp 1y ago
  > How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable. Only problem is the tool would need to read my mind to decide which 10% are worth viewing. Might as well do a manual delete pass at that point...
shellfishgene 1y ago
https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
- dole 1y ago
  FastStone’s even better than ACDSee used to be. Small footprint, free, portable, wouldn’t be surprised if ACDSee was the inspiration for it.
xnx 1y ago
IrfanView
- nottorp 1y ago
  Ohhh you don't say ... IrfanView is listed as "working great" in crossover for mac...
scosman 1y ago
Storage is cheap. I suggest focusing on spending the time setting up tools that find and resurface the 10%. Photos widget on iOS, photos shuffle lockscreen on iOS, etc. I’m biased (I worked on those), but anything in that style tools is great.
- nottorp 1y ago
  > Storage is cheap. That's no good reason to fill it with 20 photos of the same butterfly. And how will I even find the butterfly? It's lost within the 200 photos of the same hills. Do not assume I ever pruned photos before downloading them off my phones and cameras, because I did not.
  - blincoln 1y ago
    > And how will I even find the butterfly? Use Llava or similar to generate text descriptions of all of your photos, then search for "butterfly".
feiss 1y ago
Same situation here. Just thinking of printing an album of the last 3 years gives me chills. I recently learnt about "photo culling" software, which is what professional photographers use to skim through all the photo bursts they shoot and pick the best. I didn't try any yet, but you might like to google the term.

brightbeige 1y ago

Same. But I don’t even care to delete the 90%, because storage is cheap. How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.

dkga 1y ago
Would be interesting to try some clustering mechanism on the pixels and show only each cluster‘s exemplars.
nottorp 1y ago
> How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable. Only problem is the tool would need to read my mind to decide which 10% are worth viewing. Might as well do a manual delete pass at that point...

shellfishgene 1y ago

https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

dole 1y ago
FastStone’s even better than ACDSee used to be. Small footprint, free, portable, wouldn’t be surprised if ACDSee was the inspiration for it.

xnx 1y ago

IrfanView

nottorp 1y ago
Ohhh you don't say ... IrfanView is listed as "working great" in crossover for mac...

scosman 1y ago

Storage is cheap. I suggest focusing on spending the time setting up tools that find and resurface the 10%. Photos widget on iOS, photos shuffle lockscreen on iOS, etc. I’m biased (I worked on those), but anything in that style tools is great.

nottorp 1y ago
> Storage is cheap. That's no good reason to fill it with 20 photos of the same butterfly. And how will I even find the butterfly? It's lost within the 200 photos of the same hills. Do not assume I ever pruned photos before downloading them off my phones and cameras, because I did not.
- blincoln 1y ago
  > And how will I even find the butterfly? Use Llava or similar to generate text descriptions of all of your photos, then search for "butterfly".

feiss 1y ago

Same situation here. Just thinking of printing an album of the last 3 years gives me chills. I recently learnt about "photo culling" software, which is what professional photographers use to skim through all the photo bursts they shoot and pick the best. I didn't try any yet, but you might like to google the term.