<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

Reddit, I humbly ask you the following: Is there any tool that is geared toward finding photos in multiple directories and consolidating them into one?

Years of sloppy importing by my family members and carefree backup (we have 5 or 6 backups and not sure if any one of them contains all of our images- however, before any reinstalls/new PCs were rolled out, backups were done and are done regularly) have left us in a tenuous state with the safety of our photos.

Ideally, it would:

- Check for EXIF data as a way to make sure it was a photo taken by camera and not a random image on the drive
- Ignore browser caches
- Recognize if there are multiple copies of the same image, and when consolidating, keep one copy of that image.
- Insert all the existing folders into one directory with chronological dating (either by year or month/year).
<bot>: if you know of any tools to consolidate images, please recommend them. Any general tips on doing so are also welcome.