I've just bough an X10 refurb, so far I'm very impressed with my (relative) bargain. I bought this to fill the compact void in my life
hoot, load onto laptop and edit/delete/export, load the whole folder onto external HD then delete raws from laptop. 
- that's my niece. It is light - was hoping to create an angelic look ;-)
I am shooting raw at the moment. My workflow basically is this:
Shoot the pictures, load the RAWs onto my laptop into a named folder (I used to just name the folder with the date but that made it too hard to find anything, now I use a name I will recognise such as "Holifair festival" or "Walk in Porthleven with lake" something like that), I then load the RAWs into lightroom with my own preset and go through each one tweaking and/or marking them for rejection as I go. I then delete all the rejected ones from lightroom and from the disk so they are permanently gone (Because of this I sometimes keep images that i wouldn't normally just incase I fancy trying to rescue them later), I then export them as JPEGs with my watermark. After that I put the whole folder (JPEGS and RAWs) onto an external hard drive and delete the RAW's from my laptop. That way I have the RAW and JPEG backed up and still have the JPEGs on my laptop so save on disk space. I delete older folders or ones I don't think i'll need access to off of my laptop but keep them on my external HD just incase.
It sounds like a lot of steps but to sum it up
Nice one for sharing that. I'm a photo hoarder though - can't bring myself to delete even one photo hence the requirement to get a decent back up device
My sensor swap took 3 weeks (and a few days) but that was some weeks ago. I called Fuji, a week last Wednesday, as my rubber grip, on the back, was coming away and they said their 'hectic' phase was over and they expected a turnaround of one week with sensor changes and general repairs.
My return box came to me two days later, I posted my X10 the following day, two days later had email confirming they had received it, another email a few days later saying it was being returned, yesterday it arrived back via City Link and I was able to track its progress through their (City Link) systems.
I have checked it quite thoroughly and can't find anything wrong. It was interesting (this time) to find a 'quality' check tick sheet enclosed saying they had checked absolutely everything.
So I am happy and hope there are no more problems.
Good luck with yours, keep posting your shots and looks like a really good trip for you soon
I use a NAS drive and I am very happy with it.
Mine is a 2Gb capacity split into two separate 1Gb drives set to mirror 1. So if one drive fails, the other will still have an exact copy of my data saved.
It's really useful to be able to connect to it from anywhere in the house via WIFI too.
Highly recommended.
kaBOoom... and Si returns with a cracking set!!!
Here a few from the road trip. One piccy of some of the friends I was traveling with - really trying with the shallow DOF on the X10 ;-)
This is really a kind of filla set between Sarejvo, Dubrovnik and Plitvik that I put up online last night for my friends so I wasn't going to post anything from it - but here you go anyway.
