Which may or may not matter, depending on how much time you spent in the application.

I did read up on some of the Open Source options listed, but for a single-user environment I found them a bit heavy-handed, and web user interfaces just never really reach the fluency and speed of native applications. Using it strictly with its database, it is a really fine application, fast and a pretty simple and straightforward UI (since I prefered writing metadata back to files and ignored warnings about that, I got burnt, though - and later on moved to captureone catalogs instead). The single user version uses SQLite, the multi-user version you can choose between MS SQL and PostgreSQL. I've used IDImager PhotoSupreme for a while it's not free nor open source but it uses normal databases in the background. It would probably be best to stick to that. This is a photography forum, not a forum for the discussion of the philosophy of software distribution. Open source software is made by many people, and distributed under licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition. Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. 'Gallery' is an option, though it does a whole lot more than I need (and therefore the coding is much more complicated) Ideally it would use PHP/MySQL, making it (relatively) easy to modify, extend and access without resorting to proprietary software. (which is something that Aperture and Lightroom provide). I don't need or want an integrated image editor, RAW converter etc. Software that will read images from a directory into a database and allow searching by name, date, EXIF info, tags etc. Just looking for a searchable database for images with an image viewer.

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