

Neofinder vs bridge trial#
I will leave it installed for the rest of the trial period. Perhaps I have missed some important features. When I checked out Eagle, I quickly abandoned it because of its "file Structure". Not linking files is a deal killer for me. So far I have been relatively happy with NeoFinder, I am still trialing it but it seems to work fairly well. Then this is certainly not for your use case. But a DAM usually has its own structure and does not copy the one not from the desktop, because it is on an external drive/server to which all users have access. In this case, you might be better off with a file manager that includes a preview for the applications you need. You could look at the new „ACDsee for Mac“ DAM that works with your existing structure, but I don't know if the Affinity apps have previews. Indeed a DAM does normally use its own structure. My first experience of a simple system now called DAM was a system which I built over 35 years ago. It was for controlling CAD drawings in a multiuser environment. The files were on a server and copies were moved into user directories on the same server.Ī later system built with a colleague added functionality for engineers. The new database (now Oracle) and drawing files were on a server. The user interface was built with Oracle forms and the stuff hidden from end users was written in C and SQL. That sort of system is not what is needed for a single user system. I have been retired over 25 years and my skills with C ,Oracle 8 and Oracle forms are long forgotten. The database needs to run without the services of a DBA. LR uses a local SQLite which is perfect for the job. I have not investigated neoFinder or abeMeda in detail but it seems to use a similar system. Ideally one needs to be able to recover all files even if the DAM becomes obsolete. That seems to be the case for LR and abeMeda. Eagle seems not to use a proper database.Įxtracting the files from Eagle without Eagle would be very laborious. I see it as very ingenious but a dead end. Yeah, it doesn't seem like what you're looking for. Personally, I wouldn't necessarily call it a DAM either. If you want to be able to copy or move your data 1:1 again and keep the structure, it's certainly not suitable for that. Neofinder I had also used for a while, even back when it was still called CDFinder I had it once in use, but with this interface I just can not make friends.
Neofinder vs bridge mac#
Otherwise, as I said, maybe ACDSee Photo Studio is an alternative for you? NEOFINDER SORT BY DATE MACĪbeMeda looks pretty similar, also there is no Mac variant.

I am looking for a good DAM that supports RAW and sidecar files for metadata. Sidecar files have extraordinary benefits, including that minor changes to sets of large RAW files do not require all of the RAW files to be backed up, which would be extremely expensive and wasteful.
