Good morning Julie,
and THANK YOU for your compliments!! My sister & I have spent a bit of time creating our website & we love helping everyone out. We also have a number of computer related informational items too.
One thing Julie that people do when they're organizing is just open a 2nd Photo Manager. Go under File New & it will open a 2nd one, then you can your files in more than one way!
And for the last question,
ACDSee has a wonderful feature called Photo Discs. This allows you to burn cds/dvds and put the files on them & ACDSee allows you to see the images & search them even when the discs are NOT in the computer!! So, yes! it's the perfect way to lighten your hard drive. And later if you get an EHD, it's easy to put them on.
Just remember to do everything inside of ACDSee & you'll be fine.
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