Chris, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time & effort to give us this lesson! I will try to make use of it...practice, practice, practice! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us! Would you advise use of clickable thumbnails as a good alternative? I have found a few people who couldn't see the thumbnails due to their firewall (maybe?), though. I made the mistake of compressing/resizing/resampling without keeping a copy of the original & then, when I wanted to make a large print I was unable to get a quality pic. :( Live & learn to SAVE your original elsewhere! ~Rosemarie

I want to tell you....I have a LARGE hard drive...the guys in the computer store were laughing "at" me...not "with" me about what I ordered. But..I can take it...the first computer I had (this is my second) the kid I bought it from said I would only need a 20 gig hardricve and 64 RAM...and no one needed a CD burner. I had never bought a computer before and took his word for what I needed. My son to this day says I over paid (bought locally) and I probably did. But...I didn't have a bit of trouble with that computer and it was still running smoothly when I bought this one....it just wasn't "enough" for what I wanted to do. I had added more RAM, but it was also Windows 98 (which I loved) and things were passing me by. It doesn't bother me a bit to be laughed "at" in this case (I bought locally again and they remember me in there...the first store closed) :o) He says I have enough memory to last the rest of my life...we'll see that's what the first kid said....

Bob - Good Grief is right. But it's probably not as bad as it sounds. One of the problems is that before I found this forum a year ago (and had some sense of saving files to the appropriate place), not only did my husband and I just save files (with no regard to where they were being placed) - we also had 2 different computer guys help at various times - and I've discovered that one of them took it upon himself to set up some folders and put items there (he set up a Lynn's documents) when he transferred data from one computer to another. Now I can see why he set up my own folder (since my husband and I shared a computer in those days) - but he never told me he was doing that- so lo and behold - I have an entire Lynn's documents folder that I never use but contains some of my older files. yeah - I guess it's a lot to sort. Personally, your method makes sense to me - just set up folders in the C drive for the categories I'm interested in. I'm now the only one on my computer - so I don't think I need a "my documents" folder (and certainly not a separate "Lynn's documents" folder). I am so glad to have found this forum and decided to get mastery and comprehension of my computer. Having professionals set things up - but not bother telling you what and why they did things - just complicates everything. And the pictures are also a mess bc. this helpful computer guy put picasa on my pc - which grabbed every picture - so that many pictures appear in picasa and elsewhere. It's the picture finding and organizing that seems the most daunting. Videos and music I've done myself in the past year - no one else has touched it but me. Word files are manageable too. BP - my question about the Tivo files is that I want to sit in my living room, have Tivo search my computer to see what's on it. That's what I'm thinking has to be in the Tivo desktop program. When I'm at my computer, I think I can find the videos anywhere - I'm just thinking that no matter where they came from (Tivo desktop, hulu, my camcorder, edited in Videoredo), that I might somehow have to move them all to My Tivo Recordings folder in order to access it using the Tivo and watching tv. Do I have that right? Jemdandy - that's one interesting way to approach the 2 drives - one for programs and one for data files. But then I'd be backing up data files to yet another place. I have a 500GB hard drive and am thinking of adding a second 1TB hard drive. So both drives have lots of room. Except for video files, I would think my c drive could easily handle my programs and data files (music, documents and pictures) - and the software and those files could be on the c drive and backed up to the second internal drive. Is there a reason - in terms of improved performance, etc - to use the c drive only for software? Does that add an extra step if I want to use one of my software programs (say photo editing) and have to go to the other drive to get the actual photos to work on? Or is it just as quick to run a program on one drive and get the data from the other? [Okay - good grief, it is]. Thanks everyone. Lynn.

Thank you all so much. I knew I could count on THS people. I followed everyone's advice, and as long as I can see the date and time associated with the file I will be able to tell which folder/e-mail has the latest copy. One of the six pdf's DID come back as undeliverable, but I re-sent it with stern thoughts about not shirking its duty again. (It was originally sent from another account - by mistake. It was re-sent from g-mail, and it has not come back.) It must have been above the allowable attachment size for that particular e-mail. I was using the same e-mail address, and it is not an overly large file ... my c.v. is not humongous. Yes, I am really paranoid, azinoh. Again, thank you all, Janey - formerly jane2