![]() ![]() NeoFinder keeps track of your documents, photos, songs, movies, and folders wherever they are stored. NeoFinder (was CDFinder) quickly catalogs and manages your entire media and disk library, and your backup archive. Screenshot of NeoFinder sample catalog showing the different file types and details about each. NeoFinder handles a wide range of file types I’m trying it out under its 30-day, 10 catalog, trial period but if it proves its mettle, as it were, then I’ll be buying a licence. While musing on the many DAMs that had come and gone, I remembered seeing an application called NeoFinder and wondered what, exactly, it did, googled it and now here we are. I needed a very different DAM than those made just for photographs. When I began collecting information for The Robert Krasker Project, I was already acquiring files in a number of different types and formats – audio, HTML, PDFs, photographs scans, typefaces, URLs, video and more.Īs the project continues there’ll be even more file types and especially videos we’ll be shooting and editing from collected material and stuff we’ll shoot ourselves. Phase One, former owner of Media Pro, made Capture One Pro and its spin-offs, raw image file processing and cataloguing software where the catalogs were only for image files and then it spun-off its software department as a separate company named Capture One. Other DAMs and similar software that I tried were only for specific types of media and were damned good at it, such as Kyno for video production and Photo Mechanic and Photo Mechanic Plus for stills photography. I’ve used other cataloging and digital asset management applications aka DAMs over the years as well, but they either vanished from the market or were sold to developers that turned them into high-priced corporate asset cataloguing products. PS I used to have Creative Cloud but got fed up with Adobe changing things all the time and loading up storage with all sorts of bits and pieces.NeoFinder, formerly CDFinder, “quickly catalogs and manages your entire media and disk library, and your backup archive.” Image courtesy of NeoFinder.įor a time I used another Mac shareware product called CDFinder to keep track of an ever-growing collection of files on CDs and DVDs then stopped using it when I ceased burning data onto optical media disks. I suppose I'll have to download from the cloud, and put up with the strange names aliases are given. As I'm running on Catalina I'd have to get version 1, and "With version 1, PowerPhotos couldn’t access media stored in iCloud". What about Power Photos? It looks to have a list view which I often prefer, and a duplicate finder, and is a quite reasonable cost. (I see Mylio does but I only have my laptop and iPhone, and it's likely more than I need at $100/year). ![]() ADSL *****! However, the ability to keep aliases on my laptop is a boon because I have several in various other folders, and don't know if others that do that. I'm a serious amateur but don't have an extraordinary number of photos - only got into Apple when a "helpful" Apple specialist figured putting a Photos library on my external hard drive was the way to go. And have a ton of slides still to digitize! So I use both RAW and jpeg/heic. Thanks, Yer Man - I switched from my old Nikon film cameras to digital (now Olympus OM-D E-M5 MkII) and have previously kept images in simple folders by date. IF you can describe your intended use, volume and budge we might be able to be more specific. OnOne Photo Raw - bit more of an editor than a Dam but still useful. Others: Mylio, deceptively simple looking but very powerful, may also render Photos redundant. You can get both and Photoshop as a subscription. Paired with Lightroom CC you won't need Photos at all. Or are you a family snapper? So, the landscape has altered immensely since 2007, so here's a few options to check out:įrom the point of view of pure DAM then Photo Supreme is worth checking out: Īll the other suggestions I make will involve some editing capacity as well: Neither do you mention what you're shooting with, and if you're a raw shooter, pro, or serious hobbyist. You don't mention your budget, or the size of your Library, or how fast it grows. Last time I checked both these apps were around the $300 per seat mark. And an extremely expensive jackhammer at that. You could certainly use either of those apps, but both a extremely expensive and designed for use in places like newspaper offices, with server and client relationships to manage - not so much a sledgehammer to crack a peanut as a jackhammer.
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