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Even a shorthand code used for the description, including holiday, family name, and other similar details will be useful when looking at a file list, and quicker than any image render (even thumbnails).

You might also possibly add a description in this way as well, although I do not know its limitations. The info on digicam help site confirms it is likely.

Have you checked the extended information (Exchangeable Image File, aka exif) for these digital photos? I would believe that along with the various camera data it would include a date.

I cannot say how a filename translation would be handled between FreeBSD (or UNIX, which can accept rather large names with few constraints) and MSDOS or Windows, or Mac, it might truncate at some length or do other 'automagic' tricks that would make a filename less perceptible. This way you could include an abbreviated description in the file name without it getting too large. Any program (or simple `ls`) can sort by file date.

Another way to adjust the file dates is with ` touch` to change the create/mod dates of the file, rather than their name(s).

Preferably I'd like the solution that leaves the original files untouched and something that has some portatbility between different systems, in the event I need to change servers (or even operating systems).

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The other big question for me to answer is (6.) how do I share them in such a way that it's easy to use for my family? I'm thinking Nextcloud might fit the bill but I'm also considering Piwigo if I can figure out how to get it up and running on FreeNAS. That just addresses the physical location and organisation of the files. Should I use hardlinks and do both 3 and 4?.all pictures) in one, single folder? The upside of it would be that everything would be in chronological order but the downside is having a folder with several thousand files. Should I have all the files of a given type (e.g.I'm leaning toward no, as this'd mean that family events that take place at the end and beginning of a month, such as the Christmas period or a vacation, would be in seperate folders. should I have sub-folders for each year? each month? etc. How granular I should be with sub-folders.In my case, the only way I can think of that I'd treat them differently is in the event that I wanted to replicate just the pictures or just the videos, and possibly if I wanted a different snapshot schedule as I backup more pictures, more often than I do videos. Should I have nested Pictures and Videos Datasets? I've always read that Datasets should be used when you want to treat the data within it differently to other data.What do I do in the event that a files original creation date is not available?.Here are the questions I've been asking myself. There are a few things I haven't made my mind up on though. I also be renaming everything so that all the files start with the date they were created (YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS), so that I can sort everything chronologically. There's some unrelated weirdness with the current Dataset that means that I'll be creating a new Dataset and moving files to it as I sort them. There is two things I'm set on though, first being that I' ll be creating a new Dataset. I'm finally gonna tackle the jumbled, duplicate filled mess that is my Pictures_and_Videos Dataset but I'm undecided on how to do it. I'd very much like to hear who all of you organise your family pictures and videos, and how you and your family view them?