Multiple DCIM / Photo folders in Windows

This has been a problem since iOS 3. For some reason one day my photos will start appearing in different folders when browsing for them while my iPhone is connected.

Yes,
What you are seeing by default is shown as 'My folders' view. It's a flat alphabetical list of the last level subfolders in which you have media files.
Click on the little yellow icon just right of the 'My folders' title bar, and you switch to the 'Folders' view which reflects what you see in your explorer. The difference is that by default, you see only subfolders having image files; if you want to display subfolders without image files, right click on the master folder and choose to show empty folders; that choice is not sticky.

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