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lostsoul62

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I have over 10,000 photos and I use ACD photo manager 2009 but it dosen't do a very good job in Windows 8. I keep them in another partition so I'm wondering if I should use Windows 8 to manage my pictures or figure out what's going on with ACD? I never use Windows to manage my data because I feel more in charge manualy doing them myself.
 

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Me, I just uninstalled the Metro Photo app and then I could choose the program that I viewed my photos with. I just hated how opening a photo from the desktop would pop me into Metro and then I would have to hit the Win key to get back to the desktop.
Just say no to Metro Photo App.
 

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Have you tried Picasa 3, Google's answer to a photo manager, I find it excellent and also works well in the Consumer Preview.
 

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Unfortunately, like many of the things in the Metro interface, the DEFAULT PHOTO VIEWER I WIN8 CP is the Metro Photo Viewer. You don't have much choice in the matter (until someone can show how to change the file .ext association for .jpegs and the like). By deleting the Metro Photo Viewer, it forces Win8 to let you choose another program for a default viewer.
 

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You don't need to delete Metro Photo, right click a picture, click choose default program then select which ever you are comfortable with.
 
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The metro app is not well designed the thumbnails are MASSIVE, with 100 or 1000's of pictures you cannot find the one you want. I yes ACD See, it seems to work ok I have right clicked on a photo & open with & choose ACD as the default program.
 

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The problem I seem to have is that, although I have pictures in my 'pictures' library, I can't seem to find a way to load them into the Pictures app and for them to stay there - the picture will open using the app but once I close the image, it's gone from the app which then informs me how lonely it is. The funny thing is, every image from the Camera Roll on my Windows Phone is there for me to view after I synced my phone to my laptop yesterday.

Can anyone give me any advice on how I can actually get my pictures from the library to stay in the app?
 

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The Photos app seems to use the contents of the Pictures folder (possibly the Pictures library, I'm not certain). Have you tried adding your external folder to that library?
 

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As I said in my original Post that I use ACD photo manager 2009 and it didn't do a very good job. That is because when I double click on one of my 10,000 pictures it takes me to the Photo Library where I don't have any pictures. So I go to my Main picture folder which houses all my pictures and right click and say's open Browse with ACD and now I'm OK because I'm using ACD tolook at all my pictures. It just takes one more step in Windows 8 vs. Windows 7and I don't find that a great discomfort.
 

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my favorite photo managers are Windows Live Photo Gallery and Google's Picasa. both pretty equal. started off on Picasa and initially loved it because of the fantastic photo recognition and search function. however, if anything happens to the database, you're screwed and have to start over. and if you've invested many many hours of tagging photos and training the recognition, you'll feel miserable. and I've had to restart from scratch 3 times.

so I tried out Live Photo Gallery. and while its photo recognition isn't as great (though it's very good) and it has some flaws, it's still a great organizer. and the best part is the metadata for the pictures is directly affected. so if you lose the database in any way, you can get quickly up to speed again. it's also got photo touchup and some neat features like panorama, collage, etc.
 

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Hi there
STAY AWAY at all costs from any sort of proprietary data base system -- apart from the problems like the previous poster says when the database breaks it makes management etc very difficult. You are also limited to whatever space is left on to a single HDD -- you might for example have several GB of photos - especially if you like large camera RAW files - and the database can't span different volumes.

@Iasulii -- you beat me to for Fastone image viewer but I've added irfanview.

The first thing you need to do is to organise the files you have - there's a great FREE program IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide . I like being able to access the EXIF data too (some cameras give you things like exposure / lens setting / date / time etc etc embedded into the digital data of the photos - this data is called the EXIF (Exposure Information).

Another good one you might like too.

FastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter

I've been using irfanview for years and it's great but read up on both of these and make your own choice.

Cheers
jimbo
 

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management is extremely easy with Picasa and Live Photo Gallery. I wish other programs were that good! and there's no issue with pictures that span multiple drives and partitions. it's true you can't span the database across multiple partitions (as far as I know) but you can choose the location of it.
 

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