In sorting through the folder with the pictures, right click in the open window with the pictures and select "sort by type". This will move the .thu to one part of the window and the others (I hope that you are using only one type of grapic extension) to the other part of the window. Now its very easy to go through the photo list looking for an alphabetical name. Keith Thompson "E.Rodier" wrote: > > How many images can be kept in a single folder, even with long file names > and a good naming system? I've had over 25,000 JPG images on the same hard > drive at the same time but using one hard drive partition for each main > branch (about 8) and sub-folders of 50 images or less. Various programs > allow screen savers and slide shows of images in a Windows folder. > > DVD writers are not affordable yet so the practical limit is the number of > images that can be backed up on a single CD-Recordable or CD-RW, perhaps > 2000 "family size" images used with a database. THU files used by Family > Origins make an image file harder to find in a long list. > Elizabeth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Kruszka" > > I store all my photos in one directory. I learned to give descriptive > names > > and now with the ability to use long file names, it is easier. > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ People with dogs are too cowardly to bite for themselves.

Mostly JPG but some source documents were saved as 16 color uncompressed TIF. Does Family Origins 10 allow any form of TIF? I seem to recall messages about FO customers converting whole sets of image files from TIF to JPG which might result in larger image files than rescanning. Didn't find a list of accepted image formats in FO 10 Help file (using image to search and then scrapbook) Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Thompson" > In sorting through the folder with the pictures, right click in the open > window with the pictures and select "sort by type". This will move the > .thu to one part of the window and the others (I hope that you are using > only one type of grapic extension) to the other part of the window. Now > its very easy to go through the photo list looking for an alphabetical > name.