Garry,

Thanks for clarifying. I understood you loaded images directly into the external hard drive. My challenge is staff. Each staff member takes their own images and the images are stored on the removable media, then loaded into AW2K. When the 1GB SD cards are full, we just re-format them. But there have been numerous times the original images would have been extremely handy.

I organize my staff's work in the Inventory Items by assigning them Inventory Item number I have created. For instance, one of my girls is currently working on Inventory Item number 9200 to 9300. And she is working on one product line--pet supplies. so I could create a folder on the external hard drive for that staff member's Inventory Item number and product line and the subcategory the images into types. Chews, tack, etc. Prior to dumping the full SD card, they could move all the images to the external hard drive. Or that is what I have been considering doing anyway

Judy/blue