How do you organise 18,500 images on a hard drive? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by antoine849502@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hello 👋

I'm feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work I created for my-self, my files are a mess.

How much time you spend just sorting and cleaning all you images?
Do you have the same folder structure for all you storage locations? (hard drives, cloud,...)
How many files do you have?

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[-] dr100@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Are they your files? Just dump them by major event (like "trip to", "X's wedding") or period if nothing special happened (/2023/"08 Home Summer" - I always put numerical month before so they get sorted). Then use some kind of software to organize them further (automatically, by place/date/face/object recognition, etc.) https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/17l7230/bleedingedge_selfhosted_photo_software_in_2023_im/

[-] antoine849502@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The problem I have with all the softwares listed on the link, is that they need to run on a server. I want it on my hard drive

My problem: what if there is a selfie of my sister at her marriage with my grandma. I want to easily find this picture by searching "My sister Marriage" and by searching "Grandma"

How would you go about doing that? or I'm asking for too much?

[-] traal@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

My problem: what if there is a selfie of my sister at her marriage with my grandma. I want to easily find this picture by searching "My sister Marriage" and by searching "Grandma"

If you remember the year then you can quickly go to that folder just using Windows Explorer, then find the "Marriage" subfolder.

[-] antoine849502@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

But I can find a centralised place to see all the pictures of my grandma

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