How To Manage a Collection of RAW Image Files, Cloud Backups?
I am a digital photographer and archivist. At work, my digital photography workflow is largely dictated by a multi-user networked environment. In addition to myself, I have at least one (sometimes as many as three) people adding and editing metadata on a collection of over 45,000 images, growing at a rate of 1,000 images weekly. Adobe Lightroom won’t work because it cannot handle more than one person editing photos and metadata at a time. Lightroom also doesn’t particularly play nice with networked volumes, either. Our tool of choice was iView Media Pro (IVMP), but that puked once our collection reached around 30,000 images (it cannot handle a database larger than 2GB, including thumbnails). IVMP also isn’t really a multiuser editor, we used it via Remote Desktop (RDP) on the server, allowing one person at a time to do work. It was really kludgy and I was rather happy when it broke. Now, we are using IDImager, a very reasonably-priced photo metadata editing and import/export package th
