Avery Singh

Seen this a thousand times. Pull everything to one place and sort by EXIF date into YYYY/MM, and rename to YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_original. Use one cloud service as a mirror, not a second library. Set a monthly import reminder and stop touching the structure.

One home base solves it. After the last soccer tournament flooded my camera roll, I picked iCloud Photos and turned on auto-upload across phone, laptop, and tablet so everything lands in the same spot. Ran a one-time dupe cleanup on the laptop with dupeGuru, let People and Places tag most of it, and kept a few simple albums for trips. I do a 5 minute Friday cleanup for screenshots and a monthly external drive backup so I can forget about it the rest of the time.