Ahh ok, that makes sense. Hah magical algorithm.

Yeah it’s about 30TB of photos/videos. I only recently got into videography which takes up a ton of space. About 25% of that is videos converted into an editing codec, but I don’t have those backed up to external drives. I also have some folders excluded that I know have duplicates. A winter project of mine will be to clear out some of the duplicates, and then cull the photos/videos I definitely don’t need. I got into a bad data hoarding habit and kept everything even after selecting the keepers.

I have an in progress folder where I dump everything, then folders by year/month for projects and keepers. I need to do better with culling as I go.

I like that idea, I will incorporate it into my strategy.

Thank you for taking the time to help me out with this, much appreciated!