On 6/17/23 00:41, Big Al wrote:
> On 6/16/23 18:20, this is what Edmund wrote:
>> On 6/16/23 20:51, pinnerite wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:03:32 +0200
>>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/16/23 14:18, Big Al wrote:
>>>>> On 6/16/23 03:26, this is what Edmund wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/15/23 20:29, pinnerite wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:36:33 +0200
>>>>>>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> organizing huge picture folder, what is best?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried a thumb but is crashes or freezes with too many pictures.
>>>>>>>> Something that divide it in parts of a year might help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions
>>>>>>>> get some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and
>>>>>>>> outside.
>>>>>>>> Then we have organizations established from pure evil.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Edmund
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My circumstances may be different but fed up with boxes and trays of
>>>>>>> family pictures cluttering up life I decided to digitise the lot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I started with 35mm transparencies because the date of processing
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> a usefull guide.
>>>>>>> Withiin a folder named "Chronology" I added subfolders by year. The
>>>>>>> oldest is 1894 (granparents identity documents).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Eventually I had gone through over 10,000 negsatives, prints etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some could not be identified by year so I started a "Nominal" folder
>>>>>>> within which were subfolders named with tat of the principal
>>>>>>> character in each frame. When I fhad inished the subfolder with the
>>>>>>> largest number of items was.... our bernese mountain dog!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our circumstances have a lot in common I think.
>>>>>> Anyway, so far I found XNView the best prog for my needs BUT as way
>>>>>> too many times in "linux" software, it is half backed not finished.
>>>>>> It has a beautiful and equally useless option, it can detect similar
>>>>>> pictures even if they named differently. How great is that?
>>>>>> Read on, it shows the found pictures in a not resizable way too small
>>>>>> windows so one cannot SEE if the pictures are equal or not, how
>>>>>> brilliant is that? :-)
>>>>>> Hold on, if 7000 similar pictures are found one CAN NOT select
>>>>>> these to
>>>>>> copy move or delete then, they must be selected one by one....
>>>>>> Well its kind of funny but useless, when I find time I check if
>>>>>> there is
>>>>>> a windows program that simply works.....
>>>>>> Greetings from another dog lover.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Edmund
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I live in a perfect world, but I'd try to send feedback somehow.
>>>>
>>>> You made it!
>>>>
>>>>>   You seem to have a very good view of a very poor UI design and
>>>>> they should
>>>>> hear about it.
>>>>
>>>> They did.
>>>>
>>>>> Now in the real world, will they change anything?
>>>>
>>>> Don't be so ridiculous.
>>>>
>>> Talking of ridiculous, here is is a tiny script that I wrote so that
>>> my wife could watch our pictures, year by year.
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> #
>>> # Scan picture directories and display jpgs
>>> #
>>> # year=""
>>>
>>> echo "Enter the year whose pictures you want to watch i.e. 1976: "
>>>
>>> read -n4 year
>>>
>>> feh --recursive --auto-zoom --geometry 1600x1000
>>> /home/alan/Pictures/Chronological/"$year"
>>>
>>> No warranty. Haven't tried it for at least two years.
>>>
>>> Regards,  Alan
>>>
>>
>> Thanks but its not what I am looking for, I know I can 'make my own"
>> bundle of scripts to help me out.
>> I think there is a program somewhere that already have all those things
>> build in.
>> Or I must be the first in the world who made a mess of his picture
>> collection....
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Are you banking on good exif data in all you images?
> Mine are horrible, first most of them are scanned from slides.  Anything
> from 1959 to 2001 when I bought my first digital SLR.

I guess most but not all of my collection have exif data.
BTW what scanner did you use for the slides?

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The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions get
some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and outside.
Then we have organizations established from pure evil.

Edmund

On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:13:31 +0200
Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/17/23 00:41, Big Al wrote:
> > On 6/16/23 18:20, this is what Edmund wrote:
> >> On 6/16/23 20:51, pinnerite wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:03:32 +0200
> >>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 6/16/23 14:18, Big Al wrote:
> >>>>> On 6/16/23 03:26, this is what Edmund wrote:
> >>>>>> On 6/15/23 20:29, pinnerite wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:36:33 +0200
> >>>>>>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> organizing huge picture folder, what is best?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I tried a thumb but is crashes or freezes with too many pictures.
> >>>>>>>> Something that divide it in parts of a year might help.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions
> >>>>>>>> get some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and
> >>>>>>>> outside.
> >>>>>>>> Then we have organizations established from pure evil.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Edmund
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My circumstances may be different but fed up with boxes and trays of
> >>>>>>> family pictures cluttering up life I decided to digitise the lot.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I started with 35mm transparencies because the date of processing
> >>>>>>> was
> >>>>>>> a usefull guide.
> >>>>>>> Withiin a folder named "Chronology" I added subfolders by year. The
> >>>>>>> oldest is 1894 (granparents identity documents).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Eventually I had gone through over 10,000 negsatives, prints etc.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Some could not be identified by year so I started a "Nominal" folder
> >>>>>>> within which were subfolders named with tat of the principal
> >>>>>>> character in each frame. When I fhad inished the subfolder with the
> >>>>>>> largest number of items was.... our bernese mountain dog!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Alan
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Our circumstances have a lot in common I think.
> >>>>>> Anyway, so far I found XNView the best prog for my needs BUT as way
> >>>>>> too many times in "linux" software, it is half backed not finished.
> >>>>>> It has a beautiful and equally useless option, it can detect similar
> >>>>>> pictures even if they named differently. How great is that?
> >>>>>> Read on, it shows the found pictures in a not resizable way too small
> >>>>>> windows so one cannot SEE if the pictures are equal or not, how
> >>>>>> brilliant is that? :-)
> >>>>>> Hold on, if 7000 similar pictures are found one CAN NOT select
> >>>>>> these to
> >>>>>> copy move or delete then, they must be selected one by one....
> >>>>>> Well its kind of funny but useless, when I find time I check if
> >>>>>> there is
> >>>>>> a windows program that simply works.....
> >>>>>> Greetings from another dog lover.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Edmund
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I live in a perfect world, but I'd try to send feedback somehow.
> >>>>
> >>>> You made it!
> >>>>
> >>>>>   You seem to have a very good view of a very poor UI design and
> >>>>> they should
> >>>>> hear about it.
> >>>>
> >>>> They did.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Now in the real world, will they change anything?
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't be so ridiculous.
> >>>>
> >>> Talking of ridiculous, here is is a tiny script that I wrote so that
> >>> my wife could watch our pictures, year by year.
> >>>
> >>> #!/bin/bash
> >>> #
> >>> # Scan picture directories and display jpgs
> >>> #
> >>> # year=""
> >>>
> >>> echo "Enter the year whose pictures you want to watch i.e. 1976: "
> >>>
> >>> read -n4 year
> >>>
> >>> feh --recursive --auto-zoom --geometry 1600x1000
> >>> /home/alan/Pictures/Chronological/"$year"
> >>>
> >>> No warranty. Haven't tried it for at least two years.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,  Alan
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks but its not what I am looking for, I know I can 'make my own"
> >> bundle of scripts to help me out.
> >> I think there is a program somewhere that already have all those things
> >> build in.
> >> Or I must be the first in the world who made a mess of his picture
> >> collection....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Are you banking on good exif data in all you images?
> > Mine are horrible, first most of them are scanned from slides.  Anything
> > from 1959 to 2001 when I bought my first digital SLR.
>
> I guess most but not all of my collection have exif data.
> BTW what scanner did you use for the slides?
>
It was a Plustek but I cannot remember the model number.
The quality was excellent.
I hand corrected the dodgy ones using gimp.
Very cathartic.
There was one of my uncle, in uniform from 1941 holding a baby .. me!
I couldn't get his regimental details sadly.

>
>
> --
> -------------
>
> The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions get
> some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and outside.
> Then we have organizations established from pure evil.
>
> Edmund
>

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On 6/17/23 04:13, this is what Edmund wrote:
> On 6/17/23 00:41, Big Al wrote:
>> On 6/16/23 18:20, this is what Edmund wrote:
>>> On 6/16/23 20:51, pinnerite wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:03:32 +0200
>>>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/16/23 14:18, Big Al wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/16/23 03:26, this is what Edmund wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/15/23 20:29, pinnerite wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:36:33 +0200
>>>>>>>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> organizing huge picture folder, what is best?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried a thumb but is crashes or freezes with too many pictures.
>>>>>>>>> Something that divide it in parts of a year might help.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions
>>>>>>>>> get some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and outside.
>>>>>>>>> Then we have organizations established from pure evil.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Edmund
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My circumstances may be different but fed up with boxes and trays of
>>>>>>>> family pictures cluttering up life I decided to digitise the lot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I started with 35mm transparencies because the date of processing was
>>>>>>>> a usefull guide.
>>>>>>>> Withiin a folder named "Chronology" I added subfolders by year. The
>>>>>>>> oldest is 1894 (granparents identity documents).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Eventually I had gone through over 10,000 negsatives, prints etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some could not be identified by year so I started a "Nominal" folder
>>>>>>>> within which were subfolders named with tat of the principal
>>>>>>>> character in each frame. When I fhad inished the subfolder with the
>>>>>>>> largest number of items was.... our bernese mountain dog!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Our circumstances have a lot in common I think.
>>>>>>> Anyway, so far I found XNView the best prog for my needs BUT as way
>>>>>>> too many times in "linux" software, it is half backed not finished.
>>>>>>> It has a beautiful and equally useless option, it can detect similar
>>>>>>> pictures even if they named differently. How great is that?
>>>>>>> Read on, it shows the found pictures in a not resizable way too small
>>>>>>> windows so one cannot SEE if the pictures are equal or not, how
>>>>>>> brilliant is that? :-)
>>>>>>> Hold on, if 7000 similar pictures are found one CAN NOT select these to
>>>>>>> copy move or delete then, they must be selected one by one....
>>>>>>> Well its kind of funny but useless, when I find time I check if there is
>>>>>>> a windows program that simply works.....
>>>>>>> Greetings from another dog lover.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Edmund
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I live in a perfect world, but I'd try to send feedback somehow.
>>>>>
>>>>> You made it!
>>>>>
>>>>>>   You seem to have a very good view of a very poor UI design and they should
>>>>>> hear about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> They did.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Now in the real world, will they change anything?
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't be so ridiculous.
>>>>>
>>>> Talking of ridiculous, here is is a tiny script that I wrote so that my wife could watch our pictures, year by year.
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> #
>>>> # Scan picture directories and display jpgs
>>>> #
>>>> # year=""
>>>>
>>>> echo "Enter the year whose pictures you want to watch i.e. 1976: "
>>>>
>>>> read -n4 year
>>>>
>>>> feh --recursive --auto-zoom --geometry 1600x1000 /home/alan/Pictures/Chronological/"$year"
>>>>
>>>> No warranty. Haven't tried it for at least two years.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,  Alan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks but its not what I am looking for, I know I can 'make my own" bundle of scripts to help me out.
>>> I think there is a program somewhere that already have all those things
>>> build in.
>>> Or I must be the first in the world who made a mess of his picture collection....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Are you banking on good exif data in all you images?
>> Mine are horrible, first most of them are scanned from slides.  Anything from 1959 to 2001 when I bought my first
>> digital SLR.
>
> I guess most but not all of my collection have exif data.
> BTW what scanner did you use for the slides?
>
>
>
>
A Minolta scanner. Shoe box size. Would take 4 slides at a time in a holder.
Can't get drivers past win 7 so I finished before going to win 8.
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Al