After owning a digtial camera for a year and a half, I now have about 6000 photo files, which have swamped my old home computer's 16GB harddisk. So on the day after Thanksgiving, popular for shopping, I considered going to Fry's to buy an external harddisk. They had some great discounts going on, and I had never made the pilgrimage to this haven of geekdom. Then, I thought better of driving the 15 miles and fighting the crowds. I stayed home and took advantage of their sales online, which led to the purchase of the 160GB external harddisk for $60, after rebate.

While I waited for my order to arrive, I decided to write a utility program to better organize my 6000 photos. It was taking forever to open my big photo file folder! My new program copies all of the files found within one folder tree to a new folder tree, which has the files broken out by the date each picture was taken. A distinct folder is created for each day a picture was taken. Now it is easy to open the root folder, and find all the pictures from Christmas 2003, for example. With a little more polish, this utility could be ready for public consumption.

Geek out,

Eric