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  Jim

  2 years ago

  What's wrong with using Photoshop's File Browser?
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  Paul Watson

  2 years ago

  I don't think it is a particularly well designed app. Slow and full of unneeded features. I actually haven't used it since I switched to OS X so I'll give it a try again, thanks for the reminder.
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  mica

  2 years ago

  xee?
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  Paul Watson

  2 years ago

  Thanks mica. I just tried xee and it caches already viewed files nicely but it doesn't preload. So trying to flick through a directory of images is dead slow the first time. It also has no thumbnail view which is pretty useful.
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  Suresh Kumar

  2 years ago

  Paul,
  
  I think you are fundamentally missing the point.
  
  Tools like iPhoto or Aperture, etc... provide Library Management as well photo touching/metatdata...
  
  The whole point of applications like iLife (including iTunes) is to abstract the filesystem (your not supposed to delve down there). Im afraid that you are so used to living in Windows (Explorer metaphor) that you are struggling to realise that you need to 'manage' everything through the application.
  
  If you use iTunes it works in a similar way...
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  Paul Watson

  2 years ago

  True but iPhoto doesn't handle my photo library size. It abstracts but doesn't do a very good job of it on large datasets.
  
  If iPhoto cached better it would be a usable tool even for me. But it doesn't.
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  Paul Kabowsky

  1 year ago

  If you've got 500GB of files and take hundreds of pics a day then you must be a professional or someone with way too much time on your hands. Is 200 quid a lot for an app in your position???
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  Paul Watson

  1 year ago

  Aperture is not just too expensive it is also a long-term nightmare that I don't want to invest in. If it cost $5 I wouldn't buy it.
  
  I don't take 100s of photos a day, my collection is from several years of taking digital photos. I mostly shoot on weekends and yes, then I'll take a few hundred in two or so days. Not a lot really, many DSLR owners will be doing the same.
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  Matt Musselman

  1 year ago

  Hi Paul,
  
  In the meantime, I found out you can get iPhoto to rebuild its thumbnail cache and do other library repairs by holding down apple+option(alt) while you launch iPhoto (keep holding until it starts up.
  
  This will give you a dialogue box with options of what to repair.
  
  Not sure why they had to make the function so obscure...
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  Paul Watson

  1 year ago

  Thanks Matt, I'll give that a try
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