Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On 6/29/25 8:17 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> [EtB]:
EtB> What I would really like is compound searching.
 Does your program add its photo tags/dates to a database (e.g. sqlite)?
Can you query its database with other (generic) tools?

   The posters requirements seem to have evolved.
   First off, he just wanted the photos kind of
   equitably distributed between multiple dir
   trees for rapid access. For THAT I suggested
   ordinary hashing procedures.
   Now he wants everything indexed and sub-indexed
   based on whatever tags and such attached to the
   images. This falls more in the traditional DB
   range of things. Many DBs can be used - some free.
   There are normal DBs and pgms intended for photos.
   However if he wants nearly zero human interaction
   then it's going to take some smart programming.
   I once looked into "infinitely-indexed DBs".
   They can work - but likely 90% of the stuff
   on disk will be the indexes. 40 years ago that
   was totally ridiculous. NOW however ... ???