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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by iscrewyou on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:53AM (#18635777)
I used picass for one thing and one thing only: image organization.

I could point it to a directory and it would read all the images. It wouldn’t copy them to it’s database, it wouldn’t try to change their format. It would simply read them as fast as I’ve ever seen and show me what’s in that directory. Then it would keep the directory hierarchy in place. I haven’t been able to find anything similar. I search for a similar piece of software every now and then but nothing shows up. Lightroom is close but it’s god awfully slow. I just loved how fast Picasa.

I actually did some cleaning on my computer last night and found the last Picasa dmg. Maybe I run it and see if it still works.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by extractly on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:50AM (#18641368)
Picasa was definitely a state of the art app. Image controls, overall speed and smoothness of the user interface! I still cannot find anything close to it. I ended up using ImageRanger for browsing my pictures and it seems to be quite fast and non intrusive. It looks like these days almost every device and app is trying to force you to use their subscription based cloud storage or service.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by nuxi on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:05PM (#18636882)
Have you tried XnViewMP[0]? I use it on Windows, but they also have OSX and Linux builds.

[0] - https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by artificial on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:07PM (#18638797)
What about ACDSee?
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