ThumbsPlus is effectively your image database which allows you to manage all your images. You can do everything you mention above within ThumbsPlus. Just set up a suitable series of directories on your hard drive within which to store the images in an easily retrievable way. > In addition to the 40 Gb boot drive which holds my operating system (XP Pro), I have a second internal Maxtor 120Gb hard drive on which I store all my images and install my programs. I also have 2 external USB 2.0 Maxtor 40Gb hard drives which I use as back-ups. Being totally paranoid about losing thousands of images, I also back-up my data to my daughter's PC over a wireless network. Unless we are hit directly by a neutron bomb, one or other of my backups should survive ! J. Dr John T Lonsdale 407 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA Phone: 610 594 9232 Fax: 801 327 1266 Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.johnlonsdale.net/ Zone 6b