Expansion Vault Forensics
Beyond the curated 1,063 • duplicates separated from new historical content38 genuinely new image files recovered
This pass preserved 50 historical files from the expansion/provenance layer. Byte-level comparison against V3.4 found 38 genuinely new image files and 12 historical aliases whose image bytes already existed under another filename.
Original Google Drive files changed: 0.
The old “15 unknown photos” bucket is solved
13 files trace directly to the California source tree. The two COWBOY KIDS photographs trace directly to South Dakota. The classification comes from surviving duplicate file locations in known source folders—not from visual guessing.
California expansion
The large California aggregate is recorded as 788 direct images / 997 including descendants, while the clean curated California baseline preserved in V3.3 contains 403 files. Its child folder california 2 is the already-preserved 18-photo Salton Sea named sequence; California 3 adds only a duplicate Merrill/Paulette name; the copy child contains duplicate “Copy of ...” material.
The useful new material is in the California root's named layer: Santa Barbara, Universal/cousins, family/Woody/Zak images, palm-tree/sunset images, and related files.
1,530-photo archive migration remains unresolved
The August 6 inventory recorded 1,530 JPEGs in Agnittisadventure.com 2003.
That exact folder and its parent are currently empty. Multiple later sorting buckets exist, but the tested populated
numbered-series folders do not reconcile to 1,530. A later Facebook-style archive contains a nearby but different count,
which is not treated as proof. This remains an open migration clue—not a claimed loss and not a claimed recovery.
California named expansion — 23 files
South Dakota named expansion — 9 files
Cross-state provenance aliases and promotions — 18 files
Alias → already-recovered image map
| Historical alias | Byte-identical V3.4 file |
|---|---|
| nikole.jpg | assets/nikole.jpg |
| woody and nikole.JPG | assets/california-curated-master/trip-pictures-california/MVC-666S.JPG |
| woody that my hat.JPG | assets/california-curated-master/trip-pictures-california/MVC-663S.JPG |
| zakary.jpg | assets/zakary.jpg |
| CANYON TREE.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-061S.JPG |
| CANYON.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-007S.JPG |
| CATUS.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-085S.JPG |
| GATOR.JPG | assets/MVC-527S.JPG |
| PARADE WAITING.JPG | assets/MVC-488S.JPG; assets/complete-recovery/ROOT_MEDIA/MVC-488S.JPG |
| PSALM.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-062S.JPG |
| SNOW CANYON KIDS.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-054S.JPG |
| SNOW CAP MOUNTAIN VEIW.JPG | assets/arizona-master-recovery/grand-canyon-full-album/MVC-005S.JPG |
State expansion sweep
| Source | Finding |
|---|---|
| Alabama | marker only; no additional named history |
| Arizona | marker only in organized expansion; separate V3.2 Grand Canyon/Sedona recovery already preserved |
| Florida | marker only in organized expansion; GATOR/BABY GATOR provenance resolved via curated Florida |
| Idaho | ID.jpg marker only after numbered Webshots/MVC files excluded |
| Illinois | no additional human-readable layer |
| Louisiana / LOUSIANNA | MS.JPG is a misplaced state-marker copy; not treated as Louisiana subject matter |
| Massachusetts | no additional human-readable layer |
| Minnesota | no additional organized-expansion labels; LEGO LAND aliases resolve to curated Minnesota elsewhere |
| Mississippi | no additional human-readable layer |
| Montana | no extra organized-expansion labels; Montana Clouds/Highway aliases resolved elsewhere |
| New Mexico | no additional human-readable layer |
| New York | no additional human-readable layer |
| Ohio | only malformed camera filename -795S.JPG |
| Oregon | no additional human-readable layer |
| South Carolina (both source branches) | no additional human-readable layer |
| South Dakota | substantial named expansion recovered in V3.5 |
| Texas | no additional human-readable layer |
| Washington | numbered website files only after filters |
| Wisconsin | no additional human-readable layer |
| Wyoming | no additional human-readable layer |
Sorting-bucket archaeology
The master contains multiple generations of 01 IDENTIFIED, 02 CAMERA SERIES,
03 OLD WEBSITE PHOTO SETS, and 99 UNIDENTIFIED. Some duplicate generations are empty.
The populated camera bucket contains repeated number variants such as (2) and (3) with different sizes,
so camera numbers alone are not treated as chronology. The older numbered-site tree has some populated series
(e.g. 447xxxxx and 399xxxxx) and many empty series placeholders.