Judy:
You were asking Larry about image storage and archiving.

Here is what my workflow is like. I have a 200 gig USB removable hard drive that hangs off of the server. All images for AW2K go there. All images live there and that is a permanent home for it, unless it is an image of something that is rather ordinary.

At first I would delete the image off of the hard drive once it was put into AW2K and or after the auction had closed with a sale. The only problem was that if the item came back into stock I was spending time rescanning. So that process evolved into the system I use now. The 200 Gig hard drive will hold a ton of images for me and maybe it is the hoarding gene in me I find that it makes sense to keep them. Some have been archived onto CD's. An example would be 100's of stamps from some obscure country that I probably will never be using again - they are archived onto CD or DVD and removed from the hard drive. However, if it is an easily obtainable image or one that can be quickly scanned again if necessary it may be deleted totally from everything. All images go into specific directories (in my case country name) and each image is stored by its catalog number. This makes it easy to find the image if it is ever needed again. Because the drive is on the server it is part of the wireless network. So if I'm lazy I can work a brochure or sale list on the laptop from the family room and still use images that originally were used in aw2k.

Confusing huh? The short answer is that all images ever used for aw2K go to the Image Retirement Home on an external drive.

Garry