u/Evening_Tomato_5048

Hello All, new person here. Thanks for having me. New to photo cataloguing too. I might have made a mistake yesterday. I impulse bought Excire Foto 2027 thinking it would be good for collating all my photos together, knowing I had them everywhere, but unfortunately I misinterpreted a youtube advert for it going on about FOR PEOPLE with photos everywhere, and knowing it had won an award recently, it being a well over £100 purchase.

Unfortunately on booting it up, I learnt you need to feed the folder locations in to get it working its magic and it wont accept 'my pc' or root c: directory, or root e: directory as options. Kind of defeats the purpose of why I bought it which is as per the title I've said here, of having it HUNT OUT my photos and put them together. Are you guys aware of any programs which scan a drive, specifically the top level of a drive be it directory or mypc supertop folder(so searches it all) and puts all the photos (or their images via internal linking) all in one location for easy seeing? [I will likely still make use of excire when I know where to grab the photos from, that software I ask you if something does exist, hope should tell me origin, wrong to assume right, so yes when its grabbed them together it still says where from on the drive].

Thanks All.

Hello All, new person here. Thanks for having me. New to photo cataloguing too. I might have made a mistake yesterday. I impulse bought Excire Foto 2027 thinking it would be good for collating all my photos together, knowing I had them everywhere, but unfortunately I misinterpreted a youtube advert for it going on about FOR PEOPLE with photos everywhere, and knowing it had won an award recently, it being a well over £100 purchase.

Unfortunately on booting it up, I learnt you need to feed the folder locations in to get it working its magic and it wont accept 'my pc' or root c: directory, or root e: directory as options. Kind of defeats the purpose of why I bought it which is as per the title I've said here, of having it HUNT OUT my photos and put them together. Are you guys aware of any programs which scan a drive, specifically the top level of a drive be it directory or mypc supertop folder(so searches it all) and puts all the photos (or their images via internal linking) all in one location for easy seeing? [I will likely still make use of excire when I know where to grab the photos from, that software I ask you if something does exist, hope should tell me origin, wrong to assume right, so yes when its grabbed them together it still says where from on the drive].

Thanks All.

Hello, when I sit upstairs in my bedroom, top window open, I hear various wonderful bird sounds, chirping, warbling, etc.from outside. I have tried looking up a distinctive bird sound (or sound from something else) I am hearing, can't believe it's an insect yet have listened to what it's said might be from by my description and none match the sound, anyway that's by the by for now.

I am looking to capture bird sounds from just outside/beside my property but from within. i.e. I am looking for a microphone that can pick up sound from where I am which is sat inside about 8 foot from my upper slat window and 2 foot below but likely to pick up the outside bird noises that I can hear from that location?

Is that possible, are there any recommended pro choices for a suitable microphone it being required to be situated fully inside and unaimed? No I am not a pro but would like to buy with certainty.

I have a tree inside my grounds beside my bedroom window and the birds really appear to appreciate the bird seed I put out in the feeder on it. And given the great variety of sounds(tempting fate there so best just say there has been) I thought it would be cool to try and work out what bird type each is.