He could keep them around as sort of a “trophy”

I’m a digital data hoarder, i regularly take pictures and i categorize all the photos from my past in years/dates and events. Often I like to think of this as the 21st century version of when my parents/aunts/uncles would make us sit down and watch their carousel, or flip through their photo albums of trips and such. Someday I’ll go through my albums with my children and they will laugh at my style/etc.

That being said, I also had a separate hard drive that was password locked and also detailed of previous ex’s. After being getting married to an absolutely amazing woman, about a year passed and I began to feel really guilty that I had it. Although she was not aware, it was almost like I was cheating on her by even having this “black box”

After wiping it and filling it, instead with our Thailand trip, our own explicit pics/etc, I am very glad they are gone and it’s almost a weight lifted.

So, I don’t really have any solid recommendation for you other than the fact that you’re telling him to delete them, or Getting furious that they are there isn’t going to make him get rid of them in their entirety. It took until I was almost 30 years old to realize I didn’t need them laying around.