18,000 photos transferred

8,000 still to go

~ 7 or 8 hours left

…and the server is cranking away at postprocessing.

So far, it appears there are some duplicates and video files will need manual intervention. Also, auto tagging is worthless – I might make a post about this, the failing of “AI” – apparently, the algorithms depend on ‘normal’ subject matter… so, a sea anemone gets tagged as a bagel (which it does sort of look like), a newly hatched sapsucker appears to be a beetle to the computer, wild turkeys are marked as turtles, and a picture of an elk shows up as ‘Hartebeest’ which is a word I will not likely search for… I suspect facial recognition will be just as bad, though I don’t have too many pictures of people… Sadly, these are the strengths of photoprism and I’m not sure it’s even handling raw files appropriately. What I’ll be left with is a well organized collection by date, and 11 thumbnails of different sizes for every image – and that’s about it. There are also limitations to the number of files and the maximum size which won’t work… and it’s been indexing files for days! I don’t know if it will finish before the end of this month.

I might go back to zenphoto before this is all over, but pigallery as a companion and using comments in metadata is most likely.

Site update soon.