I doubt I have anywhere near the number of photos that you have, but I like Adobe Bridge a lot.
I have photos I might use for my cut-pieces and they have keywords (roof peaks, phone wires, 1 person, 2 people, bikes, etc.... things I might search for later). I also will go through my photos of my work when I'm applying for a competition and keyword images with, say "MCC Grant," then, later, when I'm applying for something else, I might pull up MCC Grant-tagged images, and add the tag "Bromfield."
I think Bridge is big and slow sometimes, but it talks natively to Camera Raw, so will generate previews from raws according to presets, and can convert from raw to jpg without having to also go through photoshop which I also like. I'm pretty happy with the configurable workspaces, too.
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I have photos I might use for my cut-pieces and they have keywords (roof peaks, phone wires, 1 person, 2 people, bikes, etc.... things I might search for later). I also will go through my photos of my work when I'm applying for a competition and keyword images with, say "MCC Grant," then, later, when I'm applying for something else, I might pull up MCC Grant-tagged images, and add the tag "Bromfield."
I think Bridge is big and slow sometimes, but it talks natively to Camera Raw, so will generate previews from raws according to presets, and can convert from raw to jpg without having to also go through photoshop which I also like. I'm pretty happy with the configurable workspaces, too.