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by LonelyWolfe 985 days ago
If I can get this to sort my huge mess of photos based on geolocation and time into folders for me based on my own folder and naming structure... This just might be useful.

Edit : even older folks who have no idea how tech works might be able to finally sort their photos as well.
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benrutter 985 days ago
That sounds very helpful, and if AI can do it, then that's great. But also, it seems like rule based file restructuring should already be easily possible without AI. Shame something like that doesn't exist.
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ForkMeOnTinder 985 days ago
It does exist, there are at least dozens of such tools. Here's a random one I found with a quick search. https://photostructure.com/getting-started/automatic-library...

But if it's not powered by AI it won't make the news in 2023

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wlesieutre 985 days ago
I know on Mac the popular tool for automatic file sorting is Hazel

https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel/hazel-overview/

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LispSporks22 985 days ago
In Apple-land, it's done that for ages: group via face, put name to face, group by geolocation etc. I think it's started recognizing my dogs too. Happens all device side.
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kyriakos 985 days ago
Google photos does amazing work with this. It's face people detection is so good it recognises baby photos all the way to adulthood as the same person.
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baz00 985 days ago
You can do that in Apple Photos without an AI stuff.

What they need to do there is actually build a competent photo management app into the OS.

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kyriakos 985 days ago
Isn't that what they just did?
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baz00 985 days ago
No. Nowhere near that. It's a steaming turd.
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Condition1952 985 days ago
yeah. I have spent two weeks hashing thousands of pictures scattered around the informal backups and now I still have to deal with different size versions of the same image.

I wish the computer could rename them consistently in my stead and removed the lesser quality versions. I would prefer if it was a tool developed by anyone else but Microsoft.

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SoftTalker 985 days ago
Short circuit the problem by not taking so many photos. Ask yourself honestly, how often do you ever look at them? If you do, you've probably also got them organized. If you don't, then you're just hoarding.
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lobsterthief 985 days ago
This sounds a lot like Jobs’ famous “don’t hold it that way” suggestion to solve iPhone 4’s signal dropping.

Asking users to take fewer photos is not a useful solution to the problem of managing large photo libraries.

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