Managing the massive amounts of various media files (photos, videos, music, documents) is painful once you get beyond a small collection. I've been managing photos in hierarchical directories on my Windows PC for the last few years and it's worked well except that it takes time to move files around, bring up thumbnails, search photos, upload them to my web based gallery, etc.

I switched to using Gallery web based system a year or so ago and it's worked well except that it's cumbersome to upload massive numbers of photos, the interface is clunky and often logs you out during transfers, and periodically munges a file so that it can no longer be opened (in fact it modifies each file uploaded which I'd prefer to leave in it's native format).

Further many desktop albums are much more advanced at this time (Adobe Album, etc.) and allow various views into your collection (both online and archived).

For now I plan on moving to a Windows based system and figure out some way to snapshot out the photos I want available online via Gallery using scripts.