Can't speak to Digikam on Mac or Windows, but on its native Linux platform,
it's been a choice I've never regretted. It's updated often, and quite a
number of new features have been added over the course of the years I've
been using it, including things like filtering by geotag, face recognition,
etc. It does not require moving files from the location where you've got
them, and can even handle removable devices.
---Scott
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:33 PM Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Mike Lazzari <watershed1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Anyone out there using digiKam? I have a couple of questions.
>
> Mac, or Windows?
>
> I find digiKam to be unusable on the Mac, very buggy, crashes a lot. They
> talk around that by blaming Mac libraries, yet others are able to produce
> stable cross-platform software. It is very clear that their development
> team does not include Macaholics.
>
> > I have a small SSD that would be perfect but wonder how big these files
> > get? There is about 40gigs free. I have way less than 100k photos
>
> Simple math indicates 100k photos in 40 gigs mean your files need to be
> under ~400k each. That sorta rules out RAW files, which may or not be a
> problem for you.
>
> In the open-source world, I've been playing with darktable, which seems to
> be much more stable on the Mac, and it allows me to use a MySQL database,
> which means you can easily re-purpose it's data, if you know SQL.
>
> :::: In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of
> the modern world -- a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic
> surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion,
> rockets to the moon, atomic energy -- man's need for affirmation of his
> biology has become that much more intense. -- Eldridge Cleaver <
> http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Eldridge+Cleaver> ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
>
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