Thanks, Wayne. I passed this on to my cousin and, after some reflection, he agreed that this may indeed be what is happening. He really had not paid much attention to the process, and had just noticed the similarity in names after importing into iPhoto! Bob On 14-Jul-09, at 1:40 AM, Wayne Dobson wrote: > The problem may not be with iPhoto. I use Epson scan, and once a scan > is named, subsequent scans will be X002, X003, etc. Thus importing > them will bring along similar names. --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>