Hi all - I just absorbed your posts about archiving your photos, and sent the sites to my Desktop, for now. I, too, with 5 kidlets now grown, and their enlarged families, have amassed a large collection of folders in My Pictures for each event, etc. However, I also have about 57 slide trays filled, and 31 boxes of slides in their cases, with 100s of prints stored up, too – from high school, grad schools, and on some in black and white, no less. I also scanned and compressed duplicates of photos so I could send them off via E-mail (now I use the Kodak upload and send option online), which lets me frame certain photos off my Pentax digital ad lib and place in albums to distribute. Now that we have online programs like the Kodak, et al, I’m still stuck with those in My Pictures (which include my family archives from 3 generations back that I scanned, as well as my own clips, etc). I’ve not used Picasa, yet; it seems a daunting process. Would some one give me an idea of what it does? Any help will be greatly appreciated. On thing I did earlier in the year, in my erstwhile preparations to move, was to lease a bin from a security shredding firm (they’re in the Yellow Book) for $50. They brought it to my home and left it with me. I went through all of my files for the past 40 years, and dumped just about everything in to the bin to be shredded for security. I had letters and notes, and other data from some individuals who’s signatures could definitely be sold but that’s just what I did not want; in fact, I’ve kept all such under lock and key throughout the years, shredding some at my desk now and then, but the file cabinets still grew in volume. Off went anything that would be in public records too - I don’t need to keep them any longer. It was such a relief when they retrieved my huge bin-on-wheels and took it out to the truck to shred the contents - including CDs. Clearing out the cave just had to begin sometime, but in that process I reviewed my life, and felt far better for the experience, realizing these past days and years have not only been full, at times challenging, and fraught with despair, but always bountiful at the first resting place. *~Thank you, all~* for chiming in on this topic.