Photo management / tagging solution for multi-user server

canderson

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My office is finally creating a dedicated server for our photos and videos. We have probably 300gb total ranging back from 2007 or so. The server will be accessible to five different users in different offices.
 
I'm looking for a management/tagging solution so users can quickly search through the server to find photos. Currenty everything is listed in folders like:
 
2014_Archive > 08_01_12-Mt_Enterprise_Groundbreaking > (photo files 001.jpg to whatever, let's say 125.jpg).
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The hangup is my office is pretty terrible at allowing software and is pretty cheap too. Adobe Bridge is out of the question for various reasons unfortunately.
 
Does anyone have any recommendations?
 
Couperin47

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canderson said:
My office is finally creating a dedicated server for our photos and videos. We have probably 300gb total ranging back from 2007 or so. The server will be accessible to five different users in different offices.
 
I'm looking for a management/tagging solution so users can quickly search through the server to find photos. Currenty everything is listed in folders like:
 
 
The hangup is my office is pretty terrible at allowing software and is pretty cheap too. Adobe Bridge is out of the question for various reasons unfortunately.
 
Does anyone have any recommendations?
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The cheapest (free) good file management app for photos & vids i know is XNview which is highly customizable.
 
One step up in cost is ACDSee Pro which bundled with their other related apps is $99.
 
AlNipper49

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If I make changes in one copy of XNView (say running on a home PC) will those changes reflect in a central database somewhere?
 
canderson

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AlNipper49 said:
If I make changes in one copy of XNView (say running on a home PC) will those changes reflect in a central database somewhere?
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Yeah, that's my biggest question. How does it work with different (and sometimes new) users? Does one person tag everything using a logon and then multiple users login under that and see what's tagged?
 
If WIndows was perfect you could do this natively. :/
 
AlNipper49

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I think the Windows photo tool actually does save a lot within the metadata of the photo. Its the one that you have to download though.
 
Couperin47

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AlNipper49 said:
If I make changes in one copy of XNView (say running on a home PC) will those changes reflect in a central database somewhere?
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XNview gives you options: settings are either set in the Registry, or you can elect to have them kept in an ini file which you can install (and sync) to all copies you have installed, the ini file can be in: user, Xnview or Windows dirs. (see Options> System Integration)
 
Also note the categories and column options are beyond extensive and sorting on all of these is trivial. It's a hell of a free app and it's rock solid. I've been using it for years, there is also extensive support for every native format under the sun, a ton of useful tools for simple manipulation of images, batch file manipulations and other stuff.
 
It's a file manager, it's not working off it's own database or files, it's reflecting whatever location you log into.
 
Check the very active support forums http://newsgroup.xnview.com/
 
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