in to edit the new photos in the in-coming (delete, correct, and crop) once all the editing is done the files are copied to the external HDD to a folder (named with the date/subject) to a folder named photos" (and again when the size is large enough to fill a DVD I burn a disk)so what I end up with is a DVD with all the original files, and a DVD with all the edited files plus any I elect to kee