Ask Tildes: I'm looking for (FOSS? Self-hosted?) photo manager software
Specifically, I've got a big honkin' pile of photos stored on an online storage space, and I want some kind of software that lets me share links to a pic, or a group of pics, or a folder, etc ...
... and here's the crux ... without making extra copies of the pics ... just has renamed, custom-permissioned links to the original pic(s).
In database terms, I want something that gives me Views of my photo collection.
I run my own Nextcloud instance, which is close. It has very nice, very granular photo management and sharing capabilities ... but as far as I can tell, whenever I share a pic with someone, it actually makes another copy of it for the shared instance. If I share the photo 5 times w/5 different people/groups, then suddenly, I have 6 copies of the pic.
Any recommendations?
Have you looked into PhotoPrism? I am not sure how sharing works internally, but it seems to be a solid alternative.
First I've heard of it, just spent a half-hour browsing the documentation (and BTDub, Great documentation! This is usually the weakest part of FOSS apps, but this is beautifully documented) ... I can't find explicitly whether or not it generates duplicates for shares, but the documentation does show a strong preference towards unnecessary dupes in general (such as when importing a new batch).
Generally, very nice looking app, too. Very polished.
Thanks for the tip.
I wasn't really in the market for photo manager/gallery software, but never heard of PhotoPrism so was curious...All i can say is wow; looks quite impressive! Beyond being FLOSS - which nowadays for me is a strict requirement - i like that it uses tensorflow for auto tagging. Really neat; thanks for sharing!
I looked for something like this for ages and never found anything good. All products I've found will make a copy of your existing photos, doubling the needed space.
Hey for what it's worth, I think nextcloud may actually do what you want. For instance, my wife and I had a wedding planning document shared between us. The filesystem only shows one instance of that document in var/snap/nextcloud, in my permissioned folder, even though two people have access to it.
I was actually just looking into this since I'm going to set up daily backups from nextcloud to s3 and I don't want duplicate data getting zipped and shipped.
I'm right now in the process of overhauling, upgrading, and moving my Nextcloud ... I will take the time to drill into this more, just in case it is already working as I'd prefer.
Edit: After properly reading the post, I interpreted wrong. Feel free to ignore this comment.
Original:
I wholeheartedly recommend Digikam. I sync my photos using Syncthing, and then use Digikam for deduplication, tagging, sorting and everything inbetween.
They recently released a major update that uses local neural networks for face detection. 100% FLOSS and 200% awesome.