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

In comp.os.linux.misc, c186282  <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

   The posters requirements seem to have evolved.

I'm not OP. I'm expresssing my desires.

   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.

The original post wanted to sort files by tag. I've done that for
various projects with my photos, but not as the main long term store.

I'm disappointed that there are easily a dozen photo management tools
and still there are so many gaps in features.

If you want a tool to build a web gallery to point someone at, well,
you can find any number of them. If you want a tool to search images
you get far fewer and with very limited ideas of what searching means.
If you want tools that won't rename your images to fuck-up archiving
or reusing the same directory tree with multiple tools, than you can
find those, easily enough. I don't understand the motivation to
"rename files and reorganize directories" unless that's the stated
goal of the tool.

You can even find some tools that will use some sort of "AI" to tag your
images. I tested one ("Home Gallery") that took a photo of a telephone
dial and tagged it as a "clock". Both are circular and numbers around
the perimeter, but they are very different things. I'm one of 0.01% who
actively tags all my own images and AI pollution like that is a hard no
for me. But maybe it's useful for someone.

Elijah
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tested a good chunk of the "awesome-selfhosted" list of gallery tools