Any suggestions for a software to catalog the 30k photos on my pc?

I used to use Adobe Bridge at work, but not for that many photos. Still, it was easy to use and well organised.

@whackyrusty which version? I dont need bells and whistles just some order to begin clearing out probably 10k in double photos transferred when my HD died. Im a newb at pc anything so simplicity is best for me.

I was using CS2 at the time, although I’m sure it doesn’t matter which version you get. I only hope it can handle such a vast library of images!

I’d wait and see what others might say, there is probably some free software out there that will do just as good a job.

There are programs that will detect and delete duplicate images, even if they are resized or have different filenames, etc. I haven’t used one myself, but they do exist. And many of them are free, such as this one.

Google Picasa. I have close to 50K images cataloged.

thanks all! @tekn0lust I’ll check into that as well can I bug you with more q’s if need be?

Actually, my advice is not to use any software at all, become you will rely on it once you’ve invested a lot of time. Will your software still work in 10 years? For me the best thing is to work with a well-designed tree of directories and a good naming convention for your jpg files. Mine all start like this: 2009–03-27-xyz… and the file names are often very long.

@mattbrowne I like that and see your point but it will take me ten years to sort this out withhout some software. Going forard I could use your method but for this mess I drowning in photos with many precious ones I can’t afford to delete in error if I tried without help from somewhere.

i second picasa

Adobe Lightroom

@giltesque – Perhaps you can look for a software helping you to create your directory tree (one time migration).