Burning Data CD

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I'm attempting to use my DVD-RW drive to burn a backup of my Quicken
files but it looks like it's more than a single-stage process. When I
finally found the "CD Burning" folder and saw prior attempts to burn
something, I deleted everything in the folder to start fresh. Then I used
the Backup routine in Quicken and gave my DVD-RW drive as target. When I
looked in that drive (temporary burning area?) to see what was ready, to my
surprise I not only found my current set of three Quicken data files (IDX,
QDF, and QEL) under a "Today" heading but a QPH file under a "Yesterday"
heading and a QTX file under a heading entitled "A long time ago" which
proved to be 5/11/2002; a long time ago indeed.

I have no idea why anything other than the set of three under "Today" would
appear in this staging area unless Quicken needs them for ... who knows
what. My concern is that when I initially found this "CD Burning" folder and
deleted what was in it to start fresh so-to-speak, I may have created a
problem for myself. Did I?
 
John said:
I'm attempting to use my DVD-RW drive to burn a backup of my
Quicken files but it looks like it's more than a single-stage
process. When I finally found the "CD Burning" folder
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XP won't natively burn to DVD (if that's what you are trying to do) AFAIK -
it will only burn to CDR/RW
 
Your best bet is to get a third party program such as Nero or Roxio . I use
Easy CD creator by Roxio. XP will burn to CD's but I believe it finalizes the
disks. Once finalized they can't be erased or added to. To burn to RW's so
that you can erase them requires the packet writing programs that come with
these third party programs.
Jim
 
John said:
I'm attempting to use my DVD-RW drive to burn a backup of my Quicken
files but it looks like it's more than a single-stage process. When I
finally found the "CD Burning" folder and saw prior attempts to burn
something, I deleted everything in the folder to start fresh. Then I used
the Backup routine in Quicken and gave my DVD-RW drive as target. When I
looked in that drive (temporary burning area?) to see what was ready, to my
surprise I not only found my current set of three Quicken data files (IDX,
QDF, and QEL) under a "Today" heading but a QPH file under a "Yesterday"
heading and a QTX file under a heading entitled "A long time ago" which
proved to be 5/11/2002; a long time ago indeed.

I have no idea why anything other than the set of three under "Today" would
appear in this staging area unless Quicken needs them for ... who knows
what. My concern is that when I initially found this "CD Burning" folder and
deleted what was in it to start fresh so-to-speak, I may have created a
problem for myself. Did I?
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Look at CDBurnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) it is free and burns
cds and DVDs
(not dual layer ones yet).
 
In
otisdog said:
Your best bet is to get a third party program such as Nero or Roxio .
I use Easy CD creator by Roxio. XP will burn to CD's but I believe it
finalizes the disks. Once finalized they can't be erased or added to.
To burn to RW's so that you can erase them requires the packet
writing programs that come with these third party programs.
Jim
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It will finalize if you set it to, but you can leave it open to add data.

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