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I suppose this one is great for someone who has 50000 photos they want to keep!

Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos?

Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular operation extremely slow.

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https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

FastStone’s even better than ACDSee used to be. Small footprint, free, portable, wouldn’t be surprised if ACDSee was the inspiration for it.

Same situation here. Just thinking of printing an album of the last 3 years gives me chills. I recently learnt about "photo culling" software, which is what professional photographers use to skim through all the photo bursts they shoot and pick the best. I didn't try any yet, but you might like to google the term.

Storage is cheap. I suggest focusing on spending the time setting up tools that find and resurface the 10%. Photos widget on iOS, photos shuffle lockscreen on iOS, etc. I’m biased (I worked on those), but anything in that style tools is great.

> Storage is cheap.

That's no good reason to fill it with 20 photos of the same butterfly.

And how will I even find the butterfly? It's lost within the 200 photos of the same hills.

Do not assume I ever pruned photos before downloading them off my phones and cameras, because I did not.

> And how will I even find the butterfly?

Use Llava or similar to generate text descriptions of all of your photos, then search for "butterfly".

Same. But I don’t even care to delete the 90%, because storage is cheap. How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.

Would be interesting to try some clustering mechanism on the pixels and show only each cluster‘s exemplars.

> How about a tool to auto-hide them, thus making the 10% easily viewable.

Only problem is the tool would need to read my mind to decide which 10% are worth viewing.

Might as well do a manual delete pass at that point...

IrfanView

Ohhh you don't say ... IrfanView is listed as "working great" in crossover for mac...

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