I sort them as I take them, so it's not bad. The negatives go into books sorted by date and shoot, with a contact sheet for each set of negatives. I use pretty much the same system with digital stuff - I have a deep file tree heirarchy and every directory has a photoshop image cache exported in it. I rely for memory on the rest - I know roughly who I shot doing what or what I shot where, so I can look in that directory tree and find it. With decent organization it's really not a problem to maintain a heck of a lot of images and still know what's where. I'm not a "collector" - they're images I shot and I believe that if I once thought it was worth shooting, I probably should think it's worth keeping. :) I'll let my heirs throw it all away if they are so inclined but I'm not going to. mjr.