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The good part about doing it this way, is you can back up all your previews and edits.

The first time you do this, C1 will create previews in the folder of the images of the folder.

The key here is don't import anything into the session.

Once you have all your images exported, close your catalog and open your session.

It helps if you use metadata to create folder and file names, otherwise you will have to fat finger it. I exported all of mine to a folder on my NAS box. Make certain and set it to save all the metadata and such.

Export your files, folder by folder using the export function.

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I've got two SSD's my windows box, so that was easy.

Create a session on the fastest drive in your computer.

So any link that you might find to an old forum enter on the innerwebs is no longer functional.Īfter beating my head against a plethora of catalog issues with C1, I've migrated away from catalogs by doing the following: A really nice poke in the eye to customers. The major impact of that was the closing down of the old forum with literally 20 years worth of user-to-user support and instead standing up a really crappy Zendesk forum structure. One important thing to remember is that C1 was spun out of Phase One last year, literally in the middle of the night.

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It was my thought that the Mac version of C1 was better than the Windows version, but lots of reports here to the contrary. Pretty much experienced the same issues as most others attempting to work with large Catalogs. So, do any of you have experience with Digikam.I'm working through how best to use C1 v12.15 with another DAM. Is there a viable setup where I can NOT sync our photos to our desktops (keep them on an UNRAID file share) and Digikam is the primary way they are served up? There are two unknowns I'm still trying to figure out:ĭoes the import from Google Photos feature work as we're trying to emigrate from Google Photos.Ĭan I save the tagging / other databases in a central file share so that information could be saved across multiple instances of the application on multiple devices? If not, perhaps running it on the server in a VM / docker will be a better option for working with out photos across multiple devices.

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This seems like such a great piece of software and I'm very strongly considering donating to help support further development. This works for us to help us sort through out massive library as needed (instead of having to organize it all).Īlso include a (rather ugly) map view, timeline view, etc.

Much more customizable that Google Photos in that regard and seems accurate so far. After manually completing a few tags it's good to go from there. With only one sample it did a great job of identifying several phases. The best part is that it has facial recognition and tagging. It also apparently saves metadata back to the files for use by other applications. Just reads from the existing files which is wonderful. but it doesn't duplicate the entire library. It does create database files for tags, etc. More mature perhaps with a larger community.īoth still looked like they'd be a bit of work to implement.Īn opensource desktop application for viewing, tagging, organizing photos from a library saved elsewhere. It seemed that indexing / importing (couldn't even figure out the difference between these / get indexing to work) could not be set up to run on a schedule (say from a server file share) without scripting and I'm not up to speed on that on UNRAID yet. It looked great, but also a little rough around the edges. Tagging should be mostly automated and we'll put some time into creating albums as we feel like it. We don't intend to spend a lot of time managing the library. My partner and I have gotten use to Google Photos taking care to tagging and facial recognition automatically. What is lacking is a way to explore the photos (sort, tag, search, etc.).

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NextCloud backup from Android app to server works great for this. I think it's important to me to keep a regular copy of all the photos somewhere (rather than bundled up in a database where I could loose them if something went wrong). I've recently set up a home server with UNRAID, currently running Plex and NextCloud w/ MariaBD) and am looking for a good photos solution. I've been going down the rabbit hole of self-hosted photo library solutions.