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Managing a large Photo/Video Collection
Background: Over the years I have collected somewhere between 60 and 100 thousand photos and thousands of hours of video in all kinds of formats (mostly jpg and muv). What's worse, doing backups and copies, I may have as many as 5 or 6 copies of any one photo or video. These are spread across two computers and dozens of CD's and DVD's.
Problem: I need to find a program that will go in and tell me not only how many copies of the same photo or video I have, but more importantly which is the best copy(ies) of/or the original, so that I can manage the files down to an original (or best copy) and one backup (next best copy). It needs to have batch capabilities because with that many photos/videos I could never do them one by one. Once I do it for the first time, it needs to be able to scan a CD or DVD of photos or videos and do the same job against the master file(s). Memory space and speed are not a problem because I'm getting a new computer with max memory and the fastest Intel chip.
Can anyone help me to find the best program to manage my collection? Thank You