Hello! I’d like to get my digital photographs in order after many years (and many disorganized local backups) and I figured it might be best to reach out to the community here for any tips that might help save me from issues I’m ignorant of at the moment.
The Situation
I have several years of photographs of all types backed up in a haphazard way (i.e. duplicates of duplicates, etc) and I’m hoping to do the following things:
- Deduplicate
- Move unique photos into a newly organized folder structure (open to thoughts – I generally like the idea of YYYY-MM/ structure).
- Setup local sharing of photos (and possibly a digikam database maybe) in my home (we use all Linux machines and FreeNAS would be the intended source of the shared photos).
One of the problems I’ve run into is Digikam having crashed while trying to catalog or de-duplicate photos from a shared network drive – I’m thinking I’m either doing this with the wrong tool, in the wrong way, or both.
I’m very open to other tools or more questions. Really appreciate any help or guidance!