ImgArchive is a digital image archiving software package. This is the supporting documentation wiki for this software. The documentation is split into two sections:
The User Guide focuses on using ImgArchive.
The Reference Manual is a complete in depth description of the ImgArchive software.
Brief Introduction
Can you find your digital images when you need them, or do you spent more time looking through endless folders on your hard drive? This can be even worse if you spent hours editing the image in Photoshop but can’t find the latest version.
ImgArchive provides an organised place to store digital images for safe keeping, editing and viewing.
ImgArchive is a Digital Image archive system with version control following the Digital Asset Management design goals.
ImgArchive uses the base Operating Systems file system in order to store images in an organised file structure. so is completely self-contained.
Safe guards your images
ImgArchive uses a digital image vault at the heart of its design. The Vault maintains a safe copy of your images which never is accessed directly.
Do no Harm
ImgArchive will never manipulate your original media, i.e. the original image or versions of that original images. Once the original is changed there is no way to revert back to the untouched original so its lost forever. ImgArchive always works on a copy never the original.
Is free
ImgArchive is free to all Users both personal and commercial users.
Flexible
Image Archive is designed to handle everything from small to very large photographic archives simply and effectively..
Is Simple
ImgArchive is simple in that it is designed to only use the file system and the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) standard as far as practical.
Cross Platform
ImgArchive will be available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Windows is available now, Linux and Mac OS latter.
Better than 3-2-1 backups
Provides an Image Vault that contains one master copy of all images plus up to two copies of the master set. ImgArchive only allows copies of the images to be published outside of the Vault. The master copies can also be automatically be backed up to the cloud using the inbuilt functions provided.
ImgArchive finger prints all images. Having all the images finger printed using both CRC and SHA256 checksums help prevent silent data corruption. These are the errors that go unnoticed without being detected by the disk firmware or the host operating system; these errors are known as silent data corruption. ImgArchive will very soon have a built-in file scrubber to find and correct these unnoticed errorrs