Okay now I use the same procedure for each of my file categories (Clipart, Backgrounds, fonts, tubes, tags, etc).  Inside each of the main folders I have TWO (yes I said 2!) sort folders.  Once is called SORT and the other is called SORT 2.  I download files into the SORT folder.  For example, my tubes, all tubes are d/l into SORT (which is inside a folder called Files - Tubes).  The sit here and wait for me, because sometimes, I am just not motivated to mess with them!  LOL  Below is a screen shot of my Files - Tubes folder.  As you can see there is a "~" (a TILDE) at the beginning and end of the filename for SORT.  This allows the folder to go to the top of the list for easy access.

As you can see, I have a tube folder for everything!  It takes alot of work, but I can find ANYTHING at a moment's notice!

Now, once I d/l my tubes into my ~TUBES SORT~ folder, they need to be unzipped.  Unzip the tubes into the SAME folder and then delete all the zip files (ya don't need them now!).  Now you are left with a whole bunch of misc. tubes.  After I unzip my tubes, the folder looks like this:

As you can see by the file names (the ones that actually have file names!), there are all types of tubes.  And some are in Adobe format (I hate this!).  Since I still use PSP 5, and when I share I know others use PSP 6 too, I convert my tubes so they are accessible in all versions of PSP.  But not yet.

Sometimes, for reasons I have no clue, some of these tubes are "READ ONLY" files.  I have no clue how this happens, but now is when I fix that!  In Windows Explorer (which is the window shown above), click on EDIT > SELECT ALL.  All the files should now be highlighted.  Move your cursor over any of the files and RIGHT click with your mouse.  A pop-up menu will appear as shown below:

Select PROPERTIES (at the bottom of the list).  Another pop up will appear and will look like this:

See in the middle where is says ATTRIBUTES? and the READ ONLY box is checked??  UNCHECK it!  Then click on APPLY then OK.  Now all of the files that were READ ONLY are not anymore!  We are now ready to do our batch conversion!  Open PSP.  Click on FILE > BATCH CONVERSION. 

A pop up window will appear and will look like this:

If you have NOT unzipped all the files in your sort folder, make sure that the "Files of Type" is listed as Paint Shop Pro Image (like shown above).  If however all your zips have been unzipped and deleted, this can say ALL FILES.  In the "Output settings" make sure that you have this set for PAINT SHOP PR IMAGE (as shown above).  And the final setting is where you want the converted tubes to go, it SHOULD be a DIFFERENT folder from the one they are in at this moment.  Since it is unlikely all the tubes you are converting are of the same type (anime, cats, dogs, Native American, sexy, etc....), that is how the "sort 2" folder came to be!  You can't see it totally, but the output folder for this screen shot is my "sort 2" folder in tubes.  Once you have your settings click on SELECT ALL and the batch conversion will begin, you will see a screen that looks like this:

When the conversion process is done click OK.  FYI:  This screen showed I had 180 files to convert, and when it was completed, it showed that 179 files were converted.  That is NORMAL!  Now you need to go to the SORT folder (where you started!) and delete those files since once they were converted they went into SORT 2 (or wherever you put them!).  If you click on EDIT > SELECT ALL (in windows explorer), it will tell you how many files you are about to delete.  For me, it says 179 this time, which is the same number of files I converted!  Then click On DELETE (which is the icon with the red X).

Okay, now comes the time consuming part!  Now you need to move the tubes for the sort2 folder into their different categories.  Everyone has this part set up different!  I prefer to do this part by using the BROWSE feature of PSP.  So click on FILE > BROWSE

And it will take a minute for PSP to load all those tubes (so be patient!).  Your screen should look something like this:

Okay, you can now start selecting tubes to move into different folders.  To select a group of tubes in a row click the first on, and then then last one while holding down the shift key.  To select multiple tubes that are NOT in a row, click on the first tube, and then click on additional tubes by holding the CTRL key.  I have gone through my tubes and selected bunnies, the ones I am going to move are highlighted.  Move your cursor over one of the highlighted tubes and right click, the following pop-up menu will appear:

Select MOVE TO as the option and another pop-up menu will appear allowing you to select the folder (or create a new folder).  The menu will look like this:

Select the folder you want to move the items you highlighted to (make sure you are in the right category, don't wanna move tubes to your graphics/clipart folder!).  Select the folder (or click on the folder with the asterisk to create a new folder), and then click OK.  The item you selected have been MOVED into the folder you just selected.  Continue with this process until your SORT 2 folder is empty or you are tired of sorting!

The great thing is once stuff is in SORT 2, all that needs to be done is the sorting.  And everything in sort 1 (AKA: Sort) needs to be unzipped, verified for read only (and unchecked), and then batch converted into the sort 2 folder.  Things will wait in your sort folder until you feel like messing with them.  And they won't get in the way of anything else.

I know it is time consuming, but being able to find anything you want EASILY and Quickly is worth while!  I hope this tut helps!  I will put together more in this "series" dealing with clipart/graphics, backgrounds, fonts, etc.....