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Essentially that's what mine does, but yours is a little more sophisticated, professional and probably better. I'll take that into consideration and see how much work it would be to convert.

Maybe my schematic wasn't clear, but if you browse my hd (I didn't want to post a screen capture of the tree structure), you would see that they all fall in chronological order and always will so long as I don't make a mistake.

It might be a little labor intensive, but I just add the new years, months and days as they occur which only takes a minute or two. I'll make sure I understand your system, basically I do, and can convert to that easily enough but a little labor intensive to make the change initially. I always retain the photo numbers assigned by the camera(s).

My first camera I could instantly tell the dates and year from the photo number. The 20D (and others in that series) just assigns IMG_xxxx.CR2 (or .jpg when I was not shooting in RAW), and builds on it numerically. In my work files, I usually but not always try to assign unique mnemonic names to my finished output so I can find them a little more easily.

There's so much valuable information here, I think I'll just save the whole thread. I hope it will be helpful to others besides me, even people who run businesses.

So many learn the hard way after losing something important, even business people.

Thank you all for your time and energy in pointing things out I never really thought about to that extent.