it's not about data hoarding, it's just that among those photos are some important ones and the work to sort and throw out the unimportant ones is just to much.

it's not about data hoarding, it's just that among those photos are some important ones and the work to sort and throw out the unimportant ones is just to much. i have backups of social media apps with all photos they ever loaded (because there is no other way to export photos from the app in bulk). that means it is 95% junk. but sorting through that junk is just to much effort. but i am not going to delete it because of those 5%. maybe if i haven't had the need to search for something for more than a decade then i can delete them (but managing old backups is an effort in itself). or i'll find an AI tool that can help me categorize the pictures.