[bloopernova]

Picasa was so useful, so of course Google had to kill it.

It took multiple disparate photo directories and presented everything in a timeline of folders. And because everything was local, that happened quickly, rather than waiting for your browser to get the next 100 photo results from a javascript call or whatever.

Are there any photo clients for windows that present multiple folders as a single coherent timeline? And can manage tens of thousands of pictures? I've got stuff going back to the late 1990s and would love to be able to find all those old cat pictures or whatever.

[mceachen]

> Are there any photo clients for windows that present multiple folders as a single coherent timeline?

PhotoStructure does this (and I believe is the only software that does robust time zone inference, as well). (I've posted elsewhere here with more details).

[bloopernova]

I'm now trying Shotwell, installed in my WSL Ubuntu instance under Windows, displaying to VcXsrv. Thankfully it can import-in-place rather than trying to copy gigabytes of photos. We'll see if it copes OK with the funky permissions and file layout I've got set up.

[jamesbr]

I use and like Mylio (https://mylio.com/). Does face recognition & syncs to other devices without being in the cloud. I migrated from Aperture/Picasa to Mylio.