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.

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 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.

I was really excited about this program, having been a QImage user for many years.  I just registered here and was about to request the same thing (subfolders determined by file date).  Without this option, the program would be more trouble for me to use than my current (free) Breeze Systems Downloader.  With that program, I choose a main subfolder for downloading (in my case, the current year -- say mwpics\2009).  The program automatically then creates additional subfolders under the year based on the file date (which is also customizeable by year, month, date or whatever order I choose).  So I then end up with "mwpics\2009\2009-09-25".  It is only necessary to go in at the beginning of each year and change the year subfolder. 

Anyway, Mike, I know what kind of magic you have worked in the past with QImage -- a program I could not live without -- so I am hoping you can come up with an option to provide this requested functionality in Flash Pipe.  For $20 I will probably buy the program anyway because I know it will only get better, but I hope you will put this "file date subfolder" functionality near the top of the list.  I can't imagine that there aren't lots of pros out there who would really appreciate it.  At the very least, make it an option and require that a top level folder be specified so that even if you did have files from 1-01-09 and 9-01-09, they would easily show up under a single subfolder. 

Thanks for listening.