Fast Photo Organizer

[blueeyedsoulbrother]

I'm looking for a photo cataloger/organizer. I used to use iView and loved it but it hasn't existed for years. Lightroom had corrupted a bunch of images years ago and Adobe's response was basically "oops". I'm using ACDSee Pro 8 but cataloging is incredibly slow.

I have photos on several external drives and a NAS unit on my network. They consist of JPG and RAW files. Every few years I feel like I'm starting the cataloging process over again and it's become very annoying.

I want to see everything in thumbnails (both online and offline photos), detect and remove duplicates, and have some tagging system that I can presumably use with other software if I should have to change again (metadata?) Any suggestions?

 

[USAFRet]

XnView
http://www.xnview.com/en/

Fastone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

And I don't know what issues you had with LightRoom, but I've used it for years with zero issue.

 

[blueeyedsoulbrother]

XnView
http://www.xnview.com/en/

Fastone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

And I don't know what issues you had with LightRoom, but I've used it for years with zero issue.

Thanks. I'll give those a try. LR was causing some weird floating file corruption. I had a few files that started to display with odd colors and patterns like an incomplete photo looking almost as if it was given a glitch effect. I copied the same files from a backup source and they would do the same. I then deleted those files rather than just overwrite those bad files and the corruption moved to the next photos in the series. I throughly tested the hard drive for bad sectors and did exhaustive troubleshooting with Adobe and finally they said this is some anomaly and that it was being created by LR and their suggestion was to use a different software. Thanks Adobe.