Old Rebel XSI file formats - confused

[SuziQ]

Hi all,
I'm trying to consolidate all my photos into one filing system. We bought a Canon Rebel XSI back in 2008(ish). For some reason, every single photo taken with this camera over a ten year period appears in my PC files in a unique folder, with two versions of the photo in it - each with a JPG file. One JPG is always much bigger than the other (77.8KB vs. 6.8 KB). I want to only ultimately save one version for my permanent archive. Which one should I save/move? Is it safe to delete the others? Is there a fast way to do this instead of manually deleting by going into every individual image file? I'm not very technically savvy, so appreciate any insight you can share here. It'd be great to just be able to browse all of these photos without having to click into each file. Thanks.

 

[davev]

The detail/exif screen caps says these photos were taken with a Canon Powershot S45. That was a 4mp point and shoot camera.
On it's lowest setting, it would take a 640 x 480 photo.
The date taken says 5/18/2003. The XSI didn't come out until 2008.
Why every photo is in it's own folder, I have no idea.
When you save, save the larger file.

S45

XSI

Links to Dpreview reviews of those cameras.
Maybe somewhere in those reviews it will say why so many folders.

 

[SuziQ]

OMG, yes, that was the camera we had before the Canon Rebel. Thank you so much for solving the mystery! (Though I'm not looking forward to deleting all the duplicates. :-()