Migrating from Thumbs+

[Grahame]

Hi,

Apologies if this is already covered, but an hour searching the forum revealed no information. Perhaps having to use "thumb" as a search term is not ideal!

My question is: I am reluctantly looking for a replacement for Thumbs+ by Cerious Software. Alas it has become unsupported, and is slowly becoming out of date, especially on file formats.

I have used it for nearly 20 years; I like the interface, and have developed some very efficient - and fast - workflows which I need to replicate with any replacement product. I deal with up to 1000 new images a day, and a massive image library. So far XnView MP is the closest I have found, and allows me to do most of what I want, and in many cases, better.

But there are two things I need and cannot do:

** Folder list information.

In the folder list I cannot see which folders and folder trees have image files in them. In TP+ you could see, by colour coding, which folders had image fies in them, and if the folder contained other folders, if there were images in the sub folders.

This is nearly essential. I could live without it but it would slow me down, and make the work less reliable.

** Image similarity.

In TP+ I could select a file and then "search by image similarity". This was a little crude in that what it really did was make an MD5 checksum of the image and search the database for matches. It would therefore throw up some unrelated files which looked nothing like the selected file, but generally could identify near duplicates anywhere on the system, and very quickly. About 5 seconds for half a million images.

The facility in XnView is good, but takes a while and because it works on a set of folder trees you can't ask for similarities to a specific file. Nor does it seem to cache any part of the scan, or the results.

This completely essential. Rapidly scanning for duplicates or near duplicates can be important for copyright.

** Other things.

Nothing important. I can live with the rest and the product is better than Thumbs+ in most ways.

Ay suggestions very appreciated!