> kind of important if it’s family photos

Anything important should be kept inside the file. Filesystem metadata gets lost all the time, isn't consistent between operating systems, zipping up a folder and extracting it will probably mess up timestampts too.

Apple's Migration Assistant messed up timestamps when I did a M2 > M4 copy recently.

Dropbox doesn't seem to keep timestamps properly either.

I like using filesystem timestamps to sort through things in Finder, and thankfully I like A Better Finder Attributes for being able to batch copy EXIF data into timestamps.

[1] https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/index.ht...