Anyone got a favourite "point at a huge directory of photos on a network share so you can browse them" tool? For Windows, and I'm not against a client-server type arrangement. Free or cheap.

I've been using Photo Gallery from Windows Live for some years but surely it won't work for ever.

@thomasbeagle I'm not sure if it's quite what you're after, but I use the excellent NeoFinder to keep thumbnails and metadata of all the photos I've ever taken (hundreds of thousands) on my laptop in a fully-searchable way. NeoFinder searches by keywords plus uses image recognition, and others. It's like a Swiss Army knife for managing photos from lots of different sources. To view or download originals, I just need to be connected to the drive that contains them. NeoFinder is the Mac product and there's a Windows equivalent called abeMeda.

NeoFinder is on Mastodon at @neofinder

https://www.abemeda.com/

Catalog all your data on Disks, DVDs, and CDs with abeMeda!

abeMeda is a powerful and very fast disk cataloging tool, reading metadata like EXIF, IPTC, JPG, TIFF, MP3, AAC (iTunes)

@joncounts @thomasbeagle

Thank you for this, very much appreciated!

abeMeda is on Mastodon, too:

https://mastodon.social/@abeMeda@universeodon.com

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