Salmon Trout,
Thank you, you ideas are right on.
But she is a relative and we have a warm relationship and it would be a bad move to refuse here gift. My fault. I offered to save hee photos.
I am not goin to do 40 DVDs.
I think I will but it down to two or three and make it a slide show she can play on amy Dvd player. Most of what she really wants a re the pictures of here adported boy growing up. Pitures of other famiklies are less relevant.
Yes, I will have to do a lot of hand picking, but first I hve to get the size down. My trusty rusty photo editr chokes ion these directories while making thumbnails is preview mode.
After doing a XCOPY to anothe drive, it looks like maybe 8,000 files and every one is over 2 bega bytes There were some MOV files that took up some space. I am going to concentrate on the JPEG.
The MOV files have the wrong ration. That is a problem I might deal with later. Or maybe not.
Thanks for you suggestion.
I found this as the place to get Image Magick.
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.phpThe functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command-line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite language.
Looks like what I want.