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I have accumulated years of photos, videos, documents and other files across multiple drives.

The problem is that cold storage is cheap, but browsing and searching old data is painful.

A full backup keeps everything, but you often don't know what is inside without connecting the original storage.

I'm curious how people manage large personal archives:

For me, it's usually Downloads.

Thousands of screenshots, random PDFs, ZIP files, invoices, images, and files named things like:

final_v2_FINAL_really_final.pdf

Doing one of these because I get more from reading what others are building than from any newsletter.

I'll start.