answer:It sounds to me like you have an excellent system. The problem you face is one you will face no matter what system you use. If you don’t keep it up, it won’t keep up. There is only so much you can do. I am in the process of trying to copy my home videos from dv tape to my hard drive. I will then offload it onto a portable harddrive—I’ve got to decide what to get now because video takes up a horrendous amount of space. I hope to get 3 terabytes or more. My tapes are labeled with date of start to date of end, unless someone didn’t put one of those on it. I hope to go back and separate out the different scenes—I noticed that we film birthday parties, school concerts and shows, vacations, and holidays (Easter, Thanksgiving and *********). We also have some theme events that we have videod over the years: Halloween and azalea blooming (where we always take pix of the kids). So you see, there could be two ways of organizing this material—by year or by event. What would be best is to actually have a database that holds these materials. That way I could organize it and play it any way I want, so long as I add in the necessary metadata. I don’t know if Access can handle this. I know you can put objects in the database, but I don’t know if you can do video. You could probably do pictures, but we have so many of those that that would be an enormous project all by itself. Really too big to handle, unless you could add metadata for groups of photos all at once. Ok, it sounds like I do have a sort of suggestion. I know what the software needs to do; now I need to know if the software exists. You want a database that allows you to add groups of photos all at once and it should be able to easily replicate the metadata across them. I don’t know if flickr or Picasa allows you to do this.