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I'm not saying you should leave DP. DP has plenty of great features. Let's just say it can't hurt that while you're using DP you take an experimental test drive of OneDrive's method of organizing photos. There's a vast difference between how each service handles it. Please note I'm not so much advocating as merely a brief comparison for you to check out for yourself in more detail as you please. Similar to someone talking about a Mac or PC concerning how they deal differently with the same task/issue. Also please forgive me for making a long post. Not meant to be exhaustive. I just tend to write long posts lol. When you come across a folder in OneDrive, the first thing you'll notice is when in list view it outright tells you the total size of that folder. Which, besides the name of the folder immediately helps you narrow down where that small or large mass of photos you're looking for likely is. When you switch to grid view it will display all the folders with names near the bottom of each folder icon along with the total number of files/photos in each folder. Again, that's extremely helpful when narrowing down what files or photos you're looking for.  It goes without saying that the grid view is large enough to actually see what each thumbnail is. This is not merely using the "photos" section. This is simply looking at any particular folder in grid view. So, used together, as far as organizing photos go, even if I couldn't read the names of folders I can find out which ones have few or tons of files and photos in them within seconds, along with how large their folder is.  Once within the folder of photos you're looking for, you can sort by the following: name, date modified, date taken, size, ascending or descending for each of those previous sorting manners, and finally the holy grail of sorts lol: "rearrange" and "save sort order". That last part means I can click it, the browser refreshes for all photos in even larger size, then I can select one or more photos and simply drag and drop them anywhere along the grid. Which shuffles them around accordingly - save sort order - done. So for organizing, you can now take those 300 photos you want and in 5 seconds just click the small circle at the top right of each one you want then drag them all to the front, back, middle, anywhere in between, done. Then whenever you look at that folder that's the exact order those photos are going to be at til you change it. Smooth, right? That right there is what I call being able to organize your files/photos. All without using my previous method of batch renaming photos so they play nice with how I want to order them. Lastly, skipping plenty of other subtle details, there's a small text section like "caption" that you can place text associated with any file/photo. It lacks the power and flexibility of DP's commenting feature. So it doesn't let you post several comments on the same file/photo and allow others to do the same as you easily could using DP. In any case, what the OneDrive file/photo comments allow you to do is rather amazing. It lets you type some text and after a couple minutes that text is actually searchable.  Which for organizing is great for me. I can take a file or photo and write in the caption something like "mustdo" or "amazing" or whatever comes to mind, like a tag, and at a later time just click search and type in that word I'm looking for: up comes all the files and photos with that specific word/text in their caption. Smooth, right? I haven't tested it further. I certainly haven't dared to take my iPhoto or Photos app on my Mac and have it access either service - directly or otherwise. I'm still experimenting with baby steps lol. Apparently the service allows you to add tags but that's a learning battle for another day. Or another week or two if I can help it lol. Feel free to enjoy all the perks of DP and take a free test drive of OneDrive. You might end up still using DP or even using both. DP has many great features. Sadly, at least to me, organizing photos certainly isn't one of them.       ... View more

Thanks for sharing your workflow. I appreciate it. Yet naturally I do have a counter to that last part. By the way I define organizing the browser version of DP really doesn't do much of that at all. That is, other than merely placing all your photos one after another according to their date/name. For instance, when using the DP website and open up a folder with photos in them I'll see a long list with images smaller than an ant's eyelash. Okay, not that small but small enough to squint and guess what each thumbnail is supposed to be. You can't sort the contents of that folder/photos by any other category, such as size, etc. Nor can you narrow things down by using tags, search text by comments or description, or anything else. So out of some easy 300 photos I may have in one photo if I don't know, by name, what photo I'm already looking for the digital battle is already lost.  For DP albums, I can't rearrange any of my photos to be in front of any other. It forces me to keep them in the same date order as before. I also can't pick or change the cover photo of an album. How do I get around this? I use a third party batch renaming app to rename hundreds or thousands of photos all at once. That way they'll always be in the order I prefer them to be in. Naturally, that's whenever I try to use DP photos in that way. Unless you're using some new version of the DP website I'm not able to really organize anything regarding DP photos. ... View more

Thanks, Rich R! I also submitted a support ticket along with a link to this topic, as suggested. I appreciate your help. ... View more