Judy:

I think you have a good idea. Create the item number as a main directory on the hard drive i.e. - 9200-9300. Then your staff person would immediatly dump all images from the SD Camera Card to that directory. They then would work off from that drive to do all of their work. Also if there was a ton of work on a particular set of images they could be assigned to two or more people and everyone would have access to images.

There then would not be an awful OOPS later on where someone forgot to dump images. In fact images could be dumped even before your person started to work on 9200-9300. The work flow could be that once the SD card was full someone would just dump it to the external drive. Then when the assignments were made images would already be there for them to begin work.

Garry