My wife and I have had different cameras over the years. We are both running Windows 7. I keep my photos in "My Photos" and she keeps hers in her "My Photos" area. I have both of our computers backed up to a redundant RAID5 Windows Home Server so things are backed up fine, but we have a lot of overlap (I have photos that she has, she has some of mine). We both name our folders different things too.
The main problem is that her laptop harddisk is running out of space - mostly due to photos. And I'd like to move my entire computer to an SSD and so I have the same problem although mine is less urgent. So I want to merge the photos library together and stick them on our Windows Home Server and remove them from our individual machines.
Both of our photo libraries look something like:
"My Photos" -> "<Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter> <year>" -> "<unique name for event>"
So:
"My Photos" -> "Spring 2010" -> "Skiing at Winter Park"
The problem is that we name the directories, and even the seasons sometimes, totally different things.
So what I'd like to do is take both libraries, figure out all of the duplicates in, for example, my library and merge the directories together. In a perfect world, I'd like to cede control completely to some program which would reorganize everything. Like Picasa, but I want it to figure out what photos have multiple copies and then generate a list of what needs to be deleted to merge everything. Ideally I'd like it to toss our current naming format, and just make a new one that is consistent and makes more sense.
Any suggestions for software that can do this?
The main problem is that her laptop harddisk is running out of space - mostly due to photos. And I'd like to move my entire computer to an SSD and so I have the same problem although mine is less urgent. So I want to merge the photos library together and stick them on our Windows Home Server and remove them from our individual machines.
Both of our photo libraries look something like:
"My Photos" -> "<Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter> <year>" -> "<unique name for event>"
So:
"My Photos" -> "Spring 2010" -> "Skiing at Winter Park"
The problem is that we name the directories, and even the seasons sometimes, totally different things.
So what I'd like to do is take both libraries, figure out all of the duplicates in, for example, my library and merge the directories together. In a perfect world, I'd like to cede control completely to some program which would reorganize everything. Like Picasa, but I want it to figure out what photos have multiple copies and then generate a list of what needs to be deleted to merge everything. Ideally I'd like it to toss our current naming format, and just make a new one that is consistent and makes more sense.
Any suggestions for software that can do this?
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