Photo Catalogue software

pothole50

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flakmagnet

Picasa is a brilliant tool for this, and it's free. If that link doesn't work, just Google Picasa, it's the first link.

When you run the setup after it's installed, just tell picasa to search all of your C drive if that's what you want to do.

Good luck!

esuhl

pothole50 wrote: »

I am looking for some software to catalogue all my photos on my computer,what I need it to do is to scah drive C: and all folders showing me what is on my computer.

You could just run a search for *.jpg and *.jpeg files in Windows Explorer...

That should pick up all your photos (unless you take photos in a different format like *.tiff...).

googler

pothole50 wrote: »

I am looking for some software to catalogue all my photos on my computer,what I need it to do is to scah drive C: and all folders showing me what is on my computer.

Download WinDirStat to find out where all your pictures are, how much space they're using, and also what else is on your hard drive.

How do you want them catalogued? By date? By subject? Give us a clue...

pothole50

Perhaps cataloged is the wrong word to use, instead of opening all the directories and sub directories, I want something I can load that does it all for me. Tried Photo Elements too slow and Picassa stops half way and does not log the whole drive.

stu484

pothole50 wrote: »

Perhaps cataloged is the wrong word to use, instead of opening all the directories and sub directories, I want something I can load that does it all for me. Tried Photo Elements too slow and Picassa stops half way and does not log the whole drive.

I think you need to check the setting of Picasa. I can't check for you at work but as a default it only looks in certain folder. You might need to browse the directory tree and make sure everything is checked. The downside of this is that it will find all the graphics files that belong to your programs. Recommend you only keep your photos in specific folders.

googler

pothole50 wrote: »

Perhaps cataloged is the wrong word to use, instead of opening all the directories and sub directories, I want something I can load that does it all for me. Tried Photo Elements too slow and Picassa stops half way and does not log the whole drive.

Does WHAT for you? Gives you a list of all your photos? Tells you which directories they're in?

Do you just want a list of all your photos? If so, do you have them all named meaningfully, or are they just as per original camera naming - IMG00091, IMG00092, etc?

pothole50

The problem was I had a dodgy hard drive which my photos were on, I have been using a digital camera since 1999