I've been trying to catalog my 200,000 photos over 3 decades. I need a database, but still haven't settled on one.
Wow, that's a lot of photos. If you spend an average of 10 seconds reminiscing each one, it end up being 555 hours total. Then again, it will be a goldmine later in life.
It would be nice to know how many are duplicates.
200,000 frames is less than 2 hours of a 30 frame per second movie.
Eventually I want to be able to make photomosaics by subject on demand.
200k is lot. I was working on organizing 15k+ photos in folders and it took a while. Make sure to use the DuplicateFileFinder first to delete the duplicates.
And I thought I had a lot at 60K...
I had to migrate my photos from two laptops to a new desktop. I was never happy with the way the photos were organized on either laptop (by event). Being a developer, I wrote a quick console application that would read the EXIF data on the files and move to folders by date. Let that run over night and I had 90-95% of the files moved and organized when I got up the next morning. The remaining files didn't have the EXIF data I needed.
The task for the past year has been to add metadata tags to my photos - people, location, event, etc. That's still an ongoing project :blush:
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