I have ~80k digital photos (not all of them good!). I’m looking for a good system to manage them from download from the Camera to picking the best ones and giving friends and relatives access to selected ones.

Currently they are stored on a ReadyNas duo v1. but I find this really clunky to use and kept up to date. I need a simple, easy to manage system. I’m a little hesitant to put it all on dropbox but I guess that could be an option if it can be managed well.

How do y’all manage your photos? What would you suggest for me?

Thanks in advance!

How do y’all manage your photos?

Ruthlessly.

What would you suggest for me?

Picasa.

I use Lightroom 4, which is excellent for applying filters as you catalogue and very flexible in its organisation.

I agree with 5th as well, be super ruthless and for free software, Picasa is excellent.

What 5thElefant said.

So if I use Picasa, where should I store them?

I store mine on a pc, backup to a NAS, and low resolution emergency-my-house-and-has-burnt-down backup to picasaweb.

Lightroom 4
Previous years data stored on a NAS with a 1 Gig Link.
Current Years stored on the Desktop/Laptop (and backed up!)

I’m ruthless in deleting the none decent shots tough,this keeps the total count down.

Exactly as above for me.

Use lightroom, rate or flag photos i want to keep/edit and reject the others. Use the lightroom cleanup tool to delete all rejected photos.

Cant see me changing, does everything i need and does it well.

Lightroom 4 for me too on a PC, backed up to a fast internal drive and to an external removable HDD as well. I’ll be replacing the external HDD and backing up to a NAS of some sort later.

Lightroom, small RAID array and backups to external HDDs.

I use Picassa and a set of three 1Tb USB drives (have photos copied to all three, in case one fails).