Photo Sorter and Viewer

[benb]

Folks, I've got hundreds of digital photos to sort out in my PC. Its a mess. To use windows is a nightmare.

Can you recommend me something better please? what do you use?

Cheers

[joebloggs]

you better back them up, pics are not something you can replace or buy if lost :doh

i've not used this, but it suppose to be v. good

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold

try the trial, buy it or find it on any good torrent site :D

i think i will give this a try, aslo there are other electronic photo albums that are good

[benb]

Thanks Joe. Will check it out.

I've got a backup harddisk, but that cannot be trusted either. I probably need to get a blu-ray rewriter. I was told that good quality DVD disks can last 100 years. I wonder how long blu-ray disks last.

[darren-b]

Thanks Joe. Will check it out.

I've got a backup harddisk, but that cannot be trusted either. I probably need to get a blu-ray rewriter. I was told that good quality DVD disks can last 100 years. I wonder how long blu-ray disks last.

Still wondering how they have managed to test the DVDs to prove they would last 100 years....

Personally I prefer to do an automatic back-up of my data to remote storage as I know I won't be organised enough to do regularly backups to DVDs. Also has the advantage that even when I'm travelling (like in the Philippines) so long as I can get Internet access from my laptop I can back any new photos up.

[benb]

I think its based on the rate of which the organic dye degrades. From there, they extrapolate the lifespan.

All I know is that Gold (dyed) disks are the best. I've had so many problems with the cheap ones - i already have problems reading cheap DVD-Rs created 4 years ago.

Yep, I agree that network storage is the way to go now but does come at a price.

[darren-b]

Network storage doesn't costs as much as it use to. I use Amazon S3 and I pay $0.10 per GB for uploading the data and then $0.16 per GB per month for the actual storage. Would get expensive if you are talking about hard disk backups, but just for photos, etc it's not that bad (50GB is about £5/month)

[joebloggs]

I think its based on the rate of which the organic dye degrades. From there, they extrapolate the lifespan.

All I know is that Gold (dyed) disks are the best. I've had so many problems with the cheap ones - i already have problems reading cheap DVD-Rs created 4 years ago.

Yep, I agree that network storage is the way to go now but does come at a price.

yes i've got some cd-r's from many years ago, even thou they been kept in the dark (under the floor boards :D) i'm joking but they have been kept in a cupboard, and most have gone a funny color, no doubt cannot be read any longer :doh

[somebody]

How many Disc systems from the eighties and earlier now cant be read?

Its not just the media its keeping a device which can play them.

Many companies and of course public organsations backed everything to laserdisk.

I remeber as a kid the BBC computers at work had these ultra expensive laser disks systems for the doomsday project i belive now its almost impossible to read the format.
The orginal Doomsday book can still be read.