#Best picasa alternative for local pc stoage and editing install

Any number of small utilities will keep a local folder synced with a network folder.Īs for the actual NAS, any old PC, fill it with hard drives and install NAS4Free. In saying that tho, I wouldn't as the performance would be horrific.īest bet is to work locally and use the network device as a backup solution. There is no reason you couldn't point your Lightroom catalogue at a shared network folder. And their backup services are more bombproof than any of ours. You can upload your images that are stored on the NAS drive, and all your family and friends the world over can see the images organized however you desire.

You might just consider subscribing to a Web hosting service like Smugmug or Zenfolio. Easy=Dropbox using Windows Explorer to search on metatag data, but it's a very basic interface. But it is a more technically demanding approach to get setup at least. Client-server photo management apps are more expensive because they are intended for business workgroups like ad agencies.įor home users a tool like Gallery (that I linked to above) will work because it requires you to establish a web server on your NAS. Photo file storage is not photo management, and I think the NAS marketers try to obscure the differences.

If you are intending the Buffalo to be for photo management without web services, then you've got the wrong tool. It will not meet your needs in this context.Ĭonsumer-level NAS drives are really intended as both a file storage/backup solution and a web server. Lightroom is only a single-user solution.