👨‍💻 XnView or NeoFinder?

When dealing with a large catalog of images and videos, what is the better tool to work with, XnView or NeoFinder? On the surface they seem similar. They both catalog volumes for content, specifically images and videos. However, the main difference and advantage of NeoFinder is it’s offline catalog and larger file format support. We go from XnView being a viewer to NeoFinder being an asset manager. Case in point, I have more than two dozen external drives hooked up to this Mac Pro. There are 5 enclosures with drives ranging in size from 3TB to 8TB. Most of the time, all the external drives are offline. When I need something, what’s the best course of action? With NeoFinder, each drive has a catalog. I can see the volume contents when the drive enclosure is off. If I’m looking for a song, document, image or video, I can find the right volume without turning on every drive to search it. […]

Handling duplicates with Gemini, DupeGuru and NeoFinder

No prizes for guessing that I have dozens of duplicate files. It's actually more like hundreds. Since I consolidated my external drives, I see that I have the same file in multiple places. This came from running out of space on one drive, and copying the information to another. Problem is, I never went back and deleted the original. Or I download a series of tutorials, then moved them, couldn't find them, then downloaded the series again. Now I have both. And the usual problem of making a backup to a drive, then writing that information to BluRay, and forgetting to remove the other backup. Again, now I have two. Regardless of how I got here, I realize one duplicate finder is not sufficient to untangle the situation. I have Gemini, DupeGuru and NeoFinder working to find where everything went. Gemini is great for finding duplicates. If it says the file is the same, it's the same. It's removed over […]