Today's addition to the image collection was a set of about 30 large digital stills and 8 video files of "the most photographed kids in the neighborhood." Those followed progressive backups on two CDs of images and family files collected or moved since two DVDs were made in mid-November. Sets of numbered images can be batch-renamed with date and topic using Windows XP. Edited and cropped images are usually saved in the same folder with more descriptive names and sometimes the pixel size. Not-so-good images have a code letter at the beginning of the file name to move them below the listing used for printing projects. It is very difficult to find a wanted image for a software program that requires all linked images to be kept in a single folder. There could be dozens of pictures with the same date or dozens of pictures for the same individual. One man stated that he sent a CD with 2000 images to his relatives along with the family files -- his whole project is likely limited to a single CD. I want to be able to send "all" images for a specific branch so someone can add to picture notes shared by their grandparents more than 35 years ago. What happens to PhotoArchiver or similar organizer databases if the images have to be moved to multiple, different folders? Moving and renaming pictures is a habit after seven years. (grin) It didn't take long to learn to keep file names a "reasonable" length for CD-ROM software. One error message today from a saved Internet file with an original name more like a sentence. Genealogists often report problems moving images linked to their family files when they upgrade software, change computers or reformat a hard drive. I lost 25,000 organized images on a single hard drive when it was moved to a different computer but progressive backup CDs made in 1997 are still useful. One or two CDs of historical pictures for each branch. My concern with any additional software is the amount of work required if the information has to be moved to a different product. Everyone who works with images suggests a different product or method. Simple Windows folders of organized pictures grouped by topic and date can have text files and the images can have meaningful names that allow them to be kept in order. New scans and new digital pictures are usually moved to a "permanent" folder or renamed immediately after they are added to a family project. I wouldn't be able to find WHC's "new" 1888 source documents collected in nearly random order if they were scattered all over the hard drive with topic names. 71 objects in his 1885-1888 sub-folder so it will likely be divided again. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Whitney" > I can Import any image (not gif or Tiff with LZW compression). Nothing really imports, however. What happens is a photo index is created which has a thumbnail of the image and links to the image wherever it is (even on a CD). The software I am trying out is called BR's PhotoArchiver, version 3.5.2. The URL is http://www.br-software.com/photoarchiver.html and belongs to Baard Riiber. I think it is out of Denmark.