No Suitable Software?

[Ray]

One might think that with all of the software available that it would be possible to find a program to do just about anything that you want, but after  many hours of searching over the last week or so I have failed to find anything that will do what I want.  My quest all began when looking for software to do what I imagined to be a relatively simple task, especially in view of the fact that most people with computers today have resorted to storing their photos on their home computers.

I want to find something that will allow me to catalog, sort, search and view, my rather large photo collection. The other desire being that when viewing the images, I can also see the "Comments" or other information that I have attached. It seems a simple request, and in the past i have used several different programs,...  but always found a stumbling block. When you move the photos from one computer to another, you lose all of your very time consuming data entries.

I think that it's only reasonable to assume that, in time we will all have to upgrade our computer(s) and/or Operating system, and this is where the the largest problem lies. When I upgrade either my computer or my Operating system, will I be able to migrate all of my photos with their data attached?

In the past week, i have downloaded and tried almost every likely program that I can find and they all seem to lack "something"

To be continued,...

[Ray]

Cont,...

There are some really good programs out there. Possibly the most suitable that I have found so far is called PixFiler.


It is elegant in it's simplicity having no more functions than are needed in a viewer, and it displays the Comments under the selected image, it's only drawback being that it is problematic to migrate the data with the images.  I am persisting with this program as I feel that it may be a winner, in the meantime I am also looking at making up a simple MS Access Database which may not look anywhere near as polished, (well,... not with my skill level anyway), but it does fulfill all of my needs, and is easily transferable between computers. The biggest thing in it's favour being that I do have a relatively good idea of how it works and I also know that my backups will work.

Below is a  view of a previous database showing the Homes of Jamestown, constructed in the same manner.



The search goes on,...