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Yup, that's exactly what media libraries are designed to avoid (if used properly).

The issue often reminds me of the early MP3 days: there was the "Winamp" crowd, read those who organized their files in folders and played with Winamp, and those who dived into iTunes challenge, so let go of the folder idea and relied on a library to handle the files.

(not meaning to promote iTunes in general with this post... in fact it has been a terrible peace of software for quite a while, almost like Outlook Just mentioning it as a an example for the library idea, which means relying (and trusting) an application handle everything on file level, while on the user interface level lots of new possibilities open up, like searching for images by file date, aperture, keywords, smart albums, etc...)