[didgetmaster]

I'm glad you haven't really 'lost' the photos since you have copies elsewhere. It is surprising how many people these days rely on some cloud service to store and preserve their only copy of some important and unreproducible data.

You are right about file systems doing a lousy job of helping you organize and locate photos, especially when they are spread across many different HDD and SDD drives attached to various computers. They are equally bad at organizing other forms of content (documents, videos, logs, music, software, etc.)

File systems were invented decades ago when the biggest hard drives could only hold a few thousand files at most, and drives were also so expensive that most people only had one of them. Traditional file systems are antiquated and need to be replaced with something better.