I guess we all have our own ways of doing things.  I have been doing it this way for 10 years and have no intention of changing.  I suspect that there are many professional photographers like myself who would disagree with you as well.  While I often add descriptive words to the subfolder date, (2009-09-24 Arizona) to identify a particular shoot or location, I have no trouble navigating through my folders with ThumbsPlus or Adobe Bridge and find it much easier to remember the date I took some pictures rather than the date on which I actually downloaded them. 

I hope you will reconsider this request as an option in the future.

You still have the date either way.  Why can't you remember the date by looking at the date prefix in the file name rather than manually navigating to a "one folder per day" structure?  The FlashPipe way, you have the best of both worlds.  You have both the date that you downloaded the photos (which could be important) and you also have a sensible file structure that automatically sorts by date by just using the file name.  

With files sortable by date within each download folder, you can look at the download folder and know which range to pick.  If you have an 8/30 folder and a 9/15 folder and you are looking for shots from a three day shoot that you did the first week in September, just choose the 9/15 folder and you know all three days will appear, sorted by date, and you can easily browse all three days together in any program and select the photos you want.

If I shoot a lot of pictures and, on average, take shots about half the days in a year, I can't imagine dealing with the mess of having 180 separate folders at the end of a year.  It just isn't necessary.  No matter how you look at it, you can easily separate photos by day without having to have this folder profusion.  Want everything shot on September 12th?  Go to the 9/15 download and select all the files that start with 2009-09-12 or 09-12 or whatever your choice for naming.  This makes a lot more sense because the download date is not arbitrary: people generally download a set of pictures when they are done with a certain event or when they have time and they know they have a batch of photos that they want from the card.  Separating photos by date, many times, would make no sense because days are arbitrary.  You could have taken a three day trip to Paris and now your photos are split into three different folders.  Just download them and then you'll see all your files by day in one folder:

09-12 0024.jpg
09-12 0025.jpg
09-12 0026.jpg
09-13 0027.jpg
09-13 0028.jpg
09-14 0029.jpg
and so on

And the best of both worlds is: you can see your whole trip and browse through the entire trip easily with any program, or you can just look at the files that start 09-13 if you just want that day.  I really still don't see the need for the folder profusion.

Edit: not trying to berate or belittle mind you.  Sort of playing "devil's advocate" right now.  I'm trying to separate need from habit so I can build something better than what is already out there.  I think there may be a better way to do this that satisfies everyone.  As a programmer and one who must support users, I really don't like the idea of your image files dictating arbitrary folders where you've really lost control over where things are going.  I did have one thought.  Since I'm still convinced you can easily separate files by date within a single folder, what about if instead of creating one folder per day, FlashPipe creates a folder that tells you the date range of photos that have been downloaded.  Example, instead of creating seven new folders for a week's worth of pictures, you get one folder named "2009-09-01 to 2009-09-07" or "September 1 - September 7" or some other user configurable format.  That way the folder shows the date range of the photos that are within that folder.

Mike

I guess your suggestions might work for casual or non-pro photographers.  But I don't see a lot of pros wanting to lump multiple day shoots into a single folder.  I do horseback ride event photography (sometimes for a week at a time).  I may utlimately end up with 500 files in a folder (and I often end up splitting the folders into things like "Wednesday Ride" and "Wednesday Evening" to make them even more manageable.  I sell the photos at the ride and print out the numbers on the proof sheets.  With a filename like "Img_6402", it's easy for the user to enter "6402" on an order form.  There is no way somebody is going to enter a filename like 2009-09-02_D40_Img_6402 on the form.  Yes, I can see pick the last 4 numbers, but it's not always going to happen.  And I doubt that many pro photographs hunt for their photos by filename.  I think most of us use some sort of image management program and use thumbnails and keywords. 

But hey, it's your program so I guess you can do it however you want.  So far, I'm not seeing any real value in it for me but I could represent a very small percentage of your potential market.  I sort of doubt it, though.

I see the reason to seperate each day's shoot also.  In sporting events like auto racing, track & field championships, boat racing, etc.  you usually wind up with multiple images of the same car/boat/person.  Immediately knowing the date shot lets you reference the heat sheet, qualification times, etc.  Adding the feature would avoid the necessity to use BreezeBrowser, etc. to sort the images in the folder by date then doing a Move to Folder to break them out.  Sorting in this way does help with databasing in programs like iMatch.

It would also simplify backing up each date to its own CD/DVD.

Years ago I shot a powerboat race in Ocean City, Maryland.  The event was covered by ESPN and I was just there to shoot for fun, but I did get photos from three days.  I've also shot the IronMan competition in Clearwater, FL including the practice/trials the day before.  In no way would I want either of those events in two or three different folders.  I didn't have FlashPipe then but if I did, it would have come up with (for example) 2008-11-07 as the subfolder.  I would have probably added to that so that the subfolder was 2008-11-07-IronMan.  Now I have the IronMan trials and the actual race in one folder.  I can select all the files from the day of the trials, print them, copy them, etc.  I can select only the files from the day of the race.  Make a DVD of those, copy those, etc.  People seem to be ignoring the fact that within the folder they are already sorted by date and then image number: FlashPipe has already created the file names to cater to that.  There is simply no downside to this, but there is an advantage.  If I want to print all the photos from both the trial day and the race day of one particular athlete, I can go through that folder without concern for day, and just pick the photos, create a DVD, print them, etc. without having to "travel" across my hard drive to do it.

In your scenario, I wouldn't want to have to search across several folders in order to give a guy all shots of his boat either.  I could just open Qimage and quickly select all of his boat, regardless of day.  Then if he just wants all shots from heat 1, I just select all the ones of his boat that start with 2008-05-21.

The only thing I might be able to rationalize is creating day subfolders under the event folder.  For example, you start with a subfolder based on the download date and then within that subfolder, a folder per day is created.  At least that way you have one "container" for the download you just did without stuff (potentially) flying all over the place.  I could see that for certain events that are mutually exclusive per-day.  Then my complaint about not knowing where your images are really going until they are processed would go away.

Mike

Okay, what we do now in a major event (read that-many photogs) Photo Mechanic DLs all chips to a folder for the day, like Indy Quals 1, or something.  Each card then DLs to a subfolder by photog which it gets from the camera serial numbers.  It does not seperate by camera; it just starts doing SIR001, SIR002, SIR003, etc.  This is about the limit of what the FP request would be.  We format the chip before re-use or just use another, so dupes is not an issue.  It would wreak havoc.

(Each folder is looked at and some images are copied to Selects which have images from all photogs.  Edits and transmits come from there.)

If that helps...

So far you haven't convinced me that FP's current scheme is going to give me what I want to end up with.  I do NOT want to download to a single giant subfolder with God only knows how many pictures in it, which I might or might not be able to identify by name.  If the folder contains images for a location or an event, I typically add something descriptive to the date subfolder after it is created.  And I use ThumbsPlus to do view the folder thumbnails or do keyword searches.  Other than printing out orders, the filenames are irrelevant to me.  But in the hopes that you can come up with something better for FP, and I have no doubt that you will, here is another suggestion.

As an option, could you give us a list of all the dates for the files on the card and allow us to specify multiple subfolders per date, IF WE WANT THEM.  Otherwise, the default could be one giant folder with the download date.  Then the folks who like large folders with lots of pictures in them (and you, apparently) could be happy and those of us who prefer more organization (or "folder profusion" as you call it in your "What Sets Us Apart" blurb) would be satisfied as well.  I would love to have the ability to customize names of the folders at download time instead of after the fact as I do now.  So if I am on a trip I might want pictures taken on 2009-09-29 to be downloaded under 2009 folder to a folder called "2009-09-29 Grand Canyon" and those from 2009-09-30 to be downloaded to "2009-09-30 Lake Powell".  Setting that up at download time to SEPARATE folders would be very cool. 

Anyway, just some thoughts.  Obviously you can't be everything to everybody and maybe you are target the average everyday user market who doesn't like lots of subfolders and who typically doesn't have an image management program.

Thanks for listening.

Anthony,
Could you please clarify the question; perhaps an example of paths/profiles that are being copied?
Fred