How I Cleaned Up the Thousands of Photos and Videos I Had Scattered Across the Internet

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My multimedia situation was a mess. After decades of taking photos and videos, I had stuff in five clouds -- Google, Apple, Flickr, Dropbox, OneDrive -- and also in offline locations like flash drives, jump drives, hard drives...

I'm not a professional photographer, just a guy who's taken his share of photos and videos over the years. You know how it is. You're on a road trip, you take a bunch of nature shots, but after a few years, they don't seem as amazing as they did from the car. Or my cats. Why did I take so many shots of them sleeping? Cats are cute, we get it, but did I need tons of pics to prove it?

Another issue was that I've used phones with different operating systems -- Blackberry, Samsung, Motorola (Android), Nokia (Windows) and now iPhone (iOS) -- and different backup systems. I was going against...

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