I have followed Emily's advice after trying iPhoto and
Lightroom. I found Bridge to work best for what I needed first which
was to just see all the photos and sort out the trash. A revelation
for me was that there were thousands of jpegs and tiffs, over 200 MBs
worth, that belonged to the system or applications. Disk Doctor Image
Recovery also got these back. For instance, at first I had 35 folders
of recovered jpegs each containing 900 images. I was able to eliminate
about 4 of the folders outright and portions of others. I was greatly
surprised at the number of duplicates, both my images and computer
images, that were taking up space. Obviously being a little more
careful in handling and filing would have helped that. But anyway the
Disk Doctor software did recover all my images; I still have to rename
and sort them but it should be much easier now. Thanks to Emily and
others for the knowledge that exists here to help those in distress. Don Emily L. Ferguson wrote: Bridge certainly can make sorting a lot easier, but if I recall correctly you're running an older version of PSCS and you'd need at least PSCS2 to get the benefit of the current version of Bridge. |