Keeping pictures from previous relationships

[OnePotatoTwoPotatoThree]

Just as the title says. I just want to know what the norm/acceptable is in regard's to keeping pictures from previous relationships. He gave me his laptop to view some pictures we took today and a picture with his ex popped up. To be fair he quickly immediately closed it. It wasn’t a casual picture, it was one where they were showing affection on a holiday. This is the second time such picture will come up. It did make me feel some type of way as we were on holiday too. When i brought it up he said he doesn’t want to delete them as they were part of his experience in life and that he wants to be able to look look back at them when he’s old as part of his experience in life.
It honestly doesn't sit well with me, or maybe im just being silly. He’s definitely not getting back with her. I just dont want pictures of him being affectionate or romantic with another girl popping up randomly in my face.
I thought of suggesting he files them in a separate folder away from his main one or archive it somewhere instead, but i dont even think that’s right. Why keep them for God’s sake if the relationship has ended?

My Partner has his in seperate folders. He does also have physical photos. The holiday was once in a lifetime, after a redundancy payout. I wouldn't expect him to destroy them. Likewise I can't get rid of my children/grandchildren to my DH.

I would never delete any photos of my past and anyone that asked me to would be dropped very quickly. My past is my past. I'm not ashamed of it and I'm not hiding anything away. No-one has the right to make me pretend that previous people, places or events were not important to me.

He had a life before you met him. You can’t erase that nor should you want to. There’s no way I’d delete photos because someone else wanted me to. He was happy with people before you met. If it was going to last you wouldn’t be together. This is more about your insecurities.
Just don’t look at his laptop, it’s not yours anyway.

My post yes does come across as me 100% wanting him to delete the photos. As said before, i will never ask him to delete them. My questions about why keep them isn’t suggesting he should by at all. I can’t tell him what to do and wouldn’t like to be told what to do either.
As someone else said if they are random holiday photos, absolutely, why not, i don’t mind seeing them. The ones i was really asking not to see are the ones that are intimate, sexual etc. he can, again, as someone else suggested, change the settings on his laptop for it not to randomly pop up.
Just to correct a PP, i do not snoop or randomly search his laptop. He have it to me to look at photos he’d taken of me that day. I dont do snooping, ever.
This post was really to get other people’s views on how to approach this matter in the best reasonable way. I have never been in this situation before. I was previously married for 17 and this of issue never came up.
A good opportunity came up to bring it up, and he did say exactly what had been suggested here even without any suggestion from me - He’ll look at his settings so they don’t randomly pop up. I also emphasized to him I wasn’t suggesting that he should delete them.
Thank you to everyone who responded!

I have photos because everything backs up on my Google account now. Not all of them, but I just haven't got round to deleting them. My partner's seen them but he's never even mentioned it. It's not a big deal to us it's all in the past

I love a good photo! Back in the good old days of disposable cameras...where you only had 27 pictures so had to make them count.

Had to wait a week to see them printed. And was thrilled when there was one picture where you didn't have red eyes.

There was even what I call 'old school dick pics' where a random on a night out seemingly took a photo of down their pants.

It's all memories. The good, the bad, the messy! It's lovely to have a bit of nostalgia.

I understand it might not be pleasant having an ex pop up in your face but it's not like he has framed pictures next to the bed....so I couldn't get worked up about this personally.

(On another note) I was with my most recent boyfriend and woke up to the smell of petrol?!? To see he was having a lovely bonfire out my back garden and burned the lot. I'd guess atleast 5000 pictures of my whole life. Childhood. Deceased loved ones....

All because there was pictures of my ex.

Devastated doesn't cut it. Not because I harbour any feeling towards my ex in the slightest. Because that's my life. Those were my memories.

Get him to pop them in another folder and problem solved!

I have my wedding album from my first marriage - it is part of my history. I ended it so why would someone expect me to throw it away?

I think you were a bit too coy about what was actually on the photos.

Arms around each other, fine.

Sexual not fine. He should delete out of respect for her at least. That's not so he can look back with fond memories as an old man. That's for the spank bank. 🤮

And I would leave him for that! And definitely delete anything you've sent him, as you know he's indiscreet.

It’s completely normal to have photos from relationships past. In fact, I’m pretty sure I still have some deep in the depths of Facebook from previous relationships. I’ve been with Dh 17 years. I definitely have photo albums full somewhere.

That was my life. I’m not going to just delete my life because I’m happily married now.

Now, NSFW sort of photos and videos, yes. I would expect those to be deleted at the end of a relationship out of respect to the other person. But I’ve never exchanged such things so can’t speak to that. 😂