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    Best photo organization program?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by joshyjosh, Dec 17, 2007.

  1. joshyjosh

    joshyjosh Notebook Guru

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    I have thousands of pictures all over the place on my harddrive, I was looking for a program to organize them into folders. I dont want a software that organizes them in the program itself. I want to organize them on the hard drive side.

    I found a program called robofolder that will move pictures based on date but it doesnt work properly.

    I was wondering what is the best way to organize my picture catastrophe and what does everyone else do??

    Thanks alot!
     
    joshyjosh, Dec 17, 2007
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  2. n0elia

    n0elia Come on Haswell...

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    n0elia, Dec 17, 2007
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  3. jetstar

    jetstar Notebook Deity

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    Try Google Picasa2. Its free and very powerful.
     
    jetstar, Dec 17, 2007
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  4. joshyjosh

    joshyjosh Notebook Guru

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    Hi guys, I appreciate the suggestions, but acdsee and picasa are both programs that organize within the software. I wanted to organize my folders so its not pics all over the place.
     
    joshyjosh, Dec 17, 2007
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  5. spitting llama

    spitting llama Notebook Enthusiast

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    sounds like you need to manually organize your pics and folders and then figure out what program to use (or get a Mac)
     
    spitting llama, Dec 17, 2007
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  6. thnksfrthmmrs

    thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist

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    Can't you do it manually? I'm guessing it would be easier than using a software solution.
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Dec 17, 2007
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  7. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Google Picassa2 is good for finding them all. I prefer creating my own directory/folder structures to contain/organize them.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Dec 17, 2007
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    jiwwy-ast Notebook Guru

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    Yes Picasa organize within the software...but you can use this "organization" to organize on the hard drive side...drag and drop work in Picasa...

    exemple: ask picasa to show you only pictures containing the keyword Blue...
    Create the folder Blue...the folder appears in the Picasa navigation system...pouf drag and drop...
     
    jiwwy-ast, Dec 17, 2007
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  10. Hiker

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    Picasa is the AOL of photo organizers.
     
    Hiker, Dec 17, 2007
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