I have been using DP4 for several month now.  I have used early versions as well, but I have not really used it very thoroughly.  David Cardinal who developed it does excellent support for the program.  I like many parts of it, but others do not work well in my opinion, for me the keywpording could work better.  I does have featuresto keep up with submissions and such and generates good web based templates for submissions.  One aspect of the program is that it was developed by people that make a living from editorial and stock submissions.  I have been more fully exploring its features of late.  I do likethe fact that you can import files from cards and add copywrite and caption information. 

There is a forum for it as well:  www.nikondigital.org

I hope this helps,

Scott

Marc - I would just like to make a backup while I am traveling for just a little more security.  I'll look at your program in the near future.

Thanks for the information,

Scott

Marc - maybe some time we should talk.  Can your program also write to multiple drives at the same time?

Thanks,

Scott

I was fortunate enough to take an one month trip to photograph in a trip that included South Georgia, Falklands, and Antarctica this last February.  I shot over 5000 frames and even more memories.  This made me realize that my workflow is not adequate.

I saw one person use a program that allowed him to write files to his hard drive in his lap top and to an external HD as well.  He also at the same time.  He also wrote some copywrite info, caption info and keywords at he same time (atleast that is what I think he did - he was running Windows XP).  I think the program was something like Downloader (was it Downloader Pro from Breeze?), but I am not sure if that is true. 

From readiing Peter's book I have a desire.  While traveling (I shoot wildlife) I need (well like to) to rename like Peter does - something like:  Buckel_YYMMDD_frame#.nef to both the HD on my laptop as well as an external drive.  To top that off, what about adding copywrite information and possibly keywords like locality (or something that would be easy to template).  It seems to me that this would be a first step in my workflow.  Does this sound reasonble?

I use a Windows XP laptop and desktop.

Thanks for your help,

Scott

Peter - My book purchase from you had been very enighting for me.  Thanks for opening my thought processes.

I started organizing my digital files just like I have for my slide collection (about 20,000 images).  I had not realized that I really did not need to do that.  I also realize that I had made things more complicated by organizing the family photos differently than my "serious" photos.

This book opened my thought processes significantly.

Thanks for the ideas, you have me thinking about several things, and in the next several days I will likely post several questions.

Scott