One option we users of Mac's have is iPhoto, which does a wonderful
job of organizing digital images of mollusks.  Another I found useful
and one that can handle 1000's of photos is called iView Media
(bundled with Roxio Toast- CD burning software).  It does something
similar to Explorer in that thumbnails are produced and the files
reside elsewhere. I do share Patty's concern about the risk of future
support for these kinds of things.

On another similar topic Alex Menez asked about the Nikon D100.  I am
also interested in hearing from anyone with experience with this
camera, because as he stated, it can be used with existing Nikon
lenses

Kevin

>Date:    Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:40:54 +1000
>From:    Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: organising digital photos
>
>Dear John and others following this discussion,
>
>Although there are a few programs available that will organise your images,
>or claim to do so, most become excessively slow and unmanageable when you
>handle 1000's of images. Also, there is the risk of the program becoming
>outdated, the company producing it going into receivership etc.
>The Windows explorer i.e. your ordinary file manager is the most foolproof
>way of organising your images, when you make folders by family, and then
>name the files after the entire species name. You can consider putting the
>species name first, followed by the generic name, in any case, the find
>function will take care of any lost species as already described.
>
>When a folder for a family becomes too large, I put it onto disk.
>
>I do have an Access database with 30,000+ names with more than 1000 linked
>images, but these images are only thumbnails and combined take up less than
>1MB in space. Adding the full-size images makes the database too slow. I
>don't think there is any program that can circumvent that problem
>
>regards
>Patty
>
>Dr. Patty Jansen
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