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Does anyone know of a simple photo viewer that will let you quickly flip through a bunch of photos, and delete the ones you don't want, that will also (optionally) delete an associated RAW and/or sidecar file?

I'm thinking of an app that had a buttons for Delete JPG, Delete RAW, Delete Both, or that would mark them for deletion to perform before exiting the app, or something similar to that.

Edit: Windows Vista (soon to be Windows 7), camera is Nikon D90 (so .NEF raw files). I have not instaleld the bundled Nikon software yet. I've just been using the Windows photo import which just copies them onto the hard drive. If I preview using Windows Photo Gallery, deleting the file only deletes the JPG, so I have to go back and delete the raw files manually afterwards.

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What Operating System? – Rowland Shaw♦ Dec 22 '10 at 13:34
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On Windows 7, that's all built in (between the photo viewer and the "extra large thumbnails"). I frequently do this from the laptop without removing the pictures from the camera. (It's hard to recognize a great pic from a thumbnail, but it's dirt simple to recognize total crap) And considering how the Mac is aimed at art and media, I'd be willing to bet that it's built in there too. – HiredMind Dec 22 '10 at 17:06
@HiredMind that's why I asked for clarification on OS -- Windows Explorer can do this for Canon/Nikon RAW since XP (with a small additional add-on from Microsoft) and also in Vista (with the RAW plugin from most vendors, or even some third parties) – Rowland Shaw♦ Dec 22 '10 at 17:56
If you have Mac, Preview does it all. And preview comes standard on Macs. – Linuxmint Dec 22 '10 at 18:53
@Rowland: Vista (see edit to original post). Thanks! – seanmc Dec 22 '10 at 19:41
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Geeqie can do this -- turn on the "Enable Image Grouping" option, and files with the same base name will be grouped. (It doesn't do anything magic to link files by actual contents that I'm aware of, though.)

You should be able to install it with yum install geeqie or apt-get install geeqie on Fedora or Ubuntu. I'm not aware of pre-built packages for Mac or Windows, but in theory it should be possible.

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It appears @seanmc is after a Windows solution, so this won't work for him. – Rowland Shaw♦ Dec 22 '10 at 19:49
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"a simple photo viewer that will let you quickly flip through a bunch of photos, and delete the ones you don't want" - isn't this built in for every camera's bundled software? Canon's ZoomBrowser can do this easily, for jpegs and RAWs.

For the optional part - it can't, to the best of my knowledge, mark for later deletion.

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It appears @seanmc is after a Nikon solution, so this won't work for him. – Rowland Shaw♦ Dec 22 '10 at 19:50
On the other hand, it does add value to the site as a whole to give more generally-useful answers like this. (As a canon guy, I appreciated this one :) +1 – AJ Finch Dec 23 '10 at 11:11
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With a NEF codec installed, the NEF files will show up in Windows Photo Gallery right along side your JPEGs.

If you are on 64 bit Windows 7 or Vista, you may want to try out our commercial NEF codec, which is many times faster than Nikon's.

A free trial is available. http://www.ardfry.com/nef-codec

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+1 for the chutzpah – AJ Finch Dec 23 '10 at 11:12
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What I was looking for was a way to view the photos (but only view one copy, not both the JPG and the RAW version), and then having both the RAW and JPG files deleted at the same time when I chose to delete the photo.

It doesn't appear there is any simple/cheap way to do this, but I do have Lightroom, so I just import everything, and Lightroom is smart enough to "bundle" the JPG/RAW, preview only one image of each photo, and will delete both files when asked.

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FastPictureViewer groups JPG and RAW files similar to Lightroom and, I suppose, deletes both simultaneously. Of course, it does not do everything Lightroom does, but it comes at a much lower price.

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All you need do is install the Nikon RAW codec, and you can then view thumbnails in Explorer, and double click to open a full size view.

It may also be worth having a play with the trial version of Adobe Lightroom, as it is awesome for keywording, and making minor adjustments - you don't even need to worry about it being in RAW or JPEG then, as it silently handles it (it also isn't limited to 32-bit installations, unlike Nikon's RAW codec)

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I don't need to preview the RAW image, but I'm looking to have the RAW image automatically deleted when I delete the JPG. Can Explorer do that with the RAW codec? Can Lightroom? Thanks! – seanmc Dec 22 '10 at 22:05
My point is that if you use the RAW codec, you don't even need the JPEG as you will be previewing the single image file – Rowland Shaw♦ Dec 23 '10 at 7:10
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I like shooting JPG plus RAW, because most of the time it is convenient just to have the JPG to review and/or email or upload, and still have the RAW if I want to do more extensive post-processing. I was just looking for a way to quickly review and then delete the JPG+RAW simultaneously for photos that aren't worth saving at all. – seanmc Dec 23 '10 at 21:00
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