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I think I'll split each dir into Months as well as Year, and it'll be ~50 in each ...

Makes sense ... so I should limit that to batches of ~50 files?

so when changing categories, i need to edit the metadata of all your files, this can take long for many files
how long is it?

I think it froze/worked for 2-4 minutes when there was about 500 files to process.

I was thinking maybe there's a rule of thumb/recommendation for files per directory ...

xnview wrote: Your pictures are in jpeg? Are you saving categories in XMP metadata?

Yes, JPEG's, storing categories in XMP, not sidecar files.

Hi! Running 0.86 on macOS 10.12.6, quite new i5, 8 GB RAM, SSD drive.

I'm organizing quite a lot of photos in batches.

If I enter a directory with 400+ photos, XnViewMP uses quite a while just processing it.
Then when I do select all and change/remove/add categories, it's left working for quite a ...

So great that you're adding this! I also just got started using Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.

On a sidenote: Do any of you know if it matters for Affinity Photo whether I save XMP metadata/tags in sidecar's or within the JPEGs themselves?

I'm also reading through the stuff referenced in the thread @Erixx linked to:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=33560

Done reading! :)

I'm going to test a bit more storing tags etc. in the files and relying on tags, not DB.
(But definitely keeping the master DB, and also doing ...

Thanks, @jonha4711!

I'm also reading through the stuff referenced in the thread @Erixx linked to:

Erixx haxx wrote:http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=33560

A quick test here. I selected to store stuff in XMP (not sidecar).

Upon opening the same files without the original database, it seems I've kept my tags, but not rating and colo u r labels. (British, aye? ;))
Edit: Well, yes, I kept some color tags ... interesting ... :)

The ratings and color ...

Since one computer is a Mac and the other is running Linux, the file paths would not be similar unless I recreate and mount to /Volumes/share/some/path on Linux ...
But if tags are stored in XMP inside the files or in a XMP sidecar, it should work with separate databases, as long as I sync/refresh ...

Newbie alert ... I'm just testing XnView for the first time. Very good first impression. :D

Background: I'm looking for something to help me organize photos
– Across multiple destinations (local and remote fs)
– From two different computers (macOS and Linux)

XnView MP seems really nice for ...