organising Photo's

[dapex]

Over the years we have taken many many digi pics of the family, holidays, pets etc etc, Now at 9584 pics in my photo folder and I need to get them organised. Ideally I need a way to easily find duplicates but not based on the name, and then to be able to batch rename. Examples of the problem may be a certain holiday spread over 2 or 3 folders, and the 1st pic in each folder is call 1.jpeg. I want to be able to then put all those pics together and bath name them to spain 2008-1.jpg oe whatever...

Then its just a matter of getting them organised, going through and deleting all the crap ones and then finding an online backup service just in case I loose my HD...

Any thoughts?

 

[Icee]

I've found there is only one way of doing it. get your head down and plow through them.

 

[xil3]

You should probably take a look at Aperture or Lightroom for photo management. Although, I'm not sure if they'll do exactly what you want (duplicate finder), but it should help you organize them quicker.

 

[hepburn]

acdsee has a very good duplicate finder. it searches either by file name or image similarity. Should be able to get a trial copy if you google for acdsee. It will also do batch functions with ease.

However, I'd recommend you use Lightroom for management as the acdsee database has a habit of easily corrupting. That's not a problem for what you want but would be if use it for image management in the long term.