Ask HN: How do you manage your photo/video collections?

I've got a set of folders, backed up on an external drive, a server I just built for our family, and soon (and again) on Backblaze. All of my photos and videos are in a folder of the form \masterarchive\source\yyyy\yyyymmddd The camera puts things in folders, I put those folders in as subfolders.

Long ago, I lost the best portrait ever of a friend because I saved the 1/4 size over the original.... so now I ALWAYS save files with a new name before doing anything else in GIMP, etc.

Google's Picasa was awesome until they killed it, because it did facial recognition... but the last version has a bug and gets confused if there are multiple faces in a photo. 8(

Digikam also does faces, but the UI is weird, and it just quits way too often... so I'm looking for a better manager.

I'll probably suck it up, and fork over the money for ThumbsPlus again... I like it, even if I can't afford it right now.

I use Google Photos (Android user btw). Works perfectly, auto-back from my phone, can scroll through them via the web interface, and easy to find back pictures of dates/places/people/...

I've a bunch of year folders from years ago when I only produced what's now seemingly a month's worth of pictures in a year.

Now I'm dumping pictures onto a harddrive every 6 months or so. I'm planning on dumping everuthing into one folder and writing a shell script to sort them into 'yyyy/mm/yyyy-mm-dd'. Just need to work out how I'm doing that.

I don't use or trust online storage.

Apple photos, Apple hasn’t betrayed my trust so far

I mean, I've got my favorite app.

Our photos from our phones get copied to the home NAS via Resilio Sync where they get picked up by PhotoStructure.

(I wrote PhotoStructure).