what a phantom discussion.

exactly!

(continues clean his newly acquired SE  )

Some disagree, but in my case, I don't just disagree: I think the opposite is true.

what a phantom discussion.

he might be right about the majority of humans and their current practice, and even about the majority of random visitors and what they do, and obviously about his own approach.

but what counts here is what the active members do - and many in this group use at least one OS9 workstation for whatever professional / ambitious task.

those who do the work decide what and how it is done - old, unavoidable rule in any group i know, from political parties and companies to lose online groups.

There is nothing I want to do that requires me to have any other system, not even the TLS issue @Mat alluded to.

May I highjack the thread even a little bit more, and ask how you handle the Email usage?

When it comes to stills - iView MediaPro.
IIRC, the trick was to use version prior to v.2, because starting with version 2 it became slow.
I personally used version 1.0.4, which, I think, was 7.6.1 compatible.
I have a fiend, a graphic designer, who used iView MediaPro to catalog all his clip art collections. The tip about the speed came from him. Also, his wife produced full memory card almost daily with her, then new, digital camera. They used iView MediaPro to sort and catalog that stuff as well. I've observed that process on several occasions.
I think you'll be fine if you go with it. As to the videos - I have no idea.

Would be happy to hear from folks how they deal with their photos (and videos, possibly?) ? I have a bunch of family photos that are still sitting in their original resolution in a folder on an external firewire harddisk. Most are just JPG files. A lot of them are from the time when the kids were infants or in kindergarden and I definitely want to keep them and possibly have them easily accessible.

I used to have them stored in iPhoto back when Apple was still supporting it on PPC OSX but found the program somewhat lacking already back then. In short, I never really liked it and got them all extracted in original size onto the external HDD.

I'm interested in a solution for Mac OS 9 that allows me to keep track of them, categorize them and comfortably view them - and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I do have iView Multimedia (3.8.1) installed which I had started to import stuff into, but I'm still wondering if that's really the best solution and what my workflow should be like. So I turn to you with a request for advice :-)

Someone else using iView Multimedia?
Or are you using another software?
What does your workflow look like?
Do you use a batch resizer to get modern 3000x4000px images down to something that OS 9 feels more comfy with or leave the originals as they are?
Any experience as for how many photos iView Multimedia is able to cope with until it gets real slow? (I'm on a 1,42 Ghz Mini)

Any input appreciated!