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Are they your files? Just dump them by major event (like "trip to", "X's wedding") or period if nothing special happened (/2023/"08 Home Summer" - I always put numerical month before so they get sorted). Then use some kind of software to organize them further (automatically, by place/date/face/object recognition, etc.) https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/17l7230/bleedingedge_selfhosted_photo_software_in_2023_im/
The problem I have with all the softwares listed on the link, is that they need to run on a server. I want it on my hard drive
My problem: what if there is a selfie of my sister at her marriage with my grandma. I want to easily find this picture by searching "My sister Marriage" and by searching "Grandma"
How would you go about doing that? or I'm asking for too much?
Might i suggest DigiKam ? Its free and open source, you can create albums and assign tags to pictures(like you said wedding 2006 or grandma), there is a tool for facial recognition but i dont have any experience with that. It creates few databases for the albums and i have no idea of it will handle that large amount of pictures but you can give it a try