Paste to CD burner

[William B. Lurie]

How many days are you going to waste bandwidth on this. We're over 24 hours pf pointless discussion. You have refused to provide any information (example 'It's under Documents and Settings on C: Drive. I highlighted it and copied it and tried to Paste it to the E: Drive, which is my CD burner. I get an error window saying "Destination folder is a sub-folder of the source folder."')

Looking at that error message and lack of information (under D&S - WTF does that mean

- Perth is in that direction but I don't thinbk you'll find it) one
can conclude you attempted to do one of two things.

1. Tried to burn the whole D&S\Username folder
2. Found your mail files that were waiting to be burned and tried to burn them again.
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You are a regular here so you should know better.

Sorry you feel that way, David. I thought I was specific enough
for the MVPs without stretching the details way out. The
actual mail folder is buried seven layers deep and I didn't
want to burden people with it. Meanwhile, Perth or Adelaide
notwithstanding, people understood the problem and offered
advice and work-arounds. The basic question I asked later
hasn't been answered: In XP-SP1 I could highlight and copy
a folder, then paste it to the CD-RW drive, and burn the CD.
Same technique doesn't work with SP2, at least not for me, ergo
my question.
W B L

 

[David Candy]

The files waiting to be burned are also in D&S. Details are important. You've recieved no help here. WTF has NTUSER.dat got to do with your mail.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

I just installed XP Pro (original) onto a fresh partition. No third party
burning apps were installed, and tested my CD Writer sing XPs burning
software. I used Copy and Paste (as you reported) to copy my Outlook Express
mail store location to a blank CD-R. No problem. Then I installed SP1 and
repeated the process. No problem. Then I updated to SP2 and repeated the
process. No Problem. Ensure you are not running Outlook Express when you do
the Copy and Paste is the only thing I can offer.

 

[William B. Lurie]

I just installed XP Pro (original) onto a fresh partition. No third party
burning apps were installed, and tested my CD Writer sing XPs burning
software. I used Copy and Paste (as you reported) to copy my Outlook Express
mail store location to a blank CD-R. No problem. Then I installed SP1 and
repeated the process. No problem. Then I updated to SP2 and repeated the
process. No Problem. Ensure you are not running Outlook Express when you do
the Copy and Paste is the only thing I can offer.

Thanks for the specific concise report, Harry.
I don't use OE at all. My problem seems to be that
my mail store is 7 layers deep starting in C:\Documents & Settings.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Thanks for the specific concise report, Harry.
I don't use OE at all. My problem seems to be that
my mail store is 7 layers deep starting in C:\Documents & Settings.

In the above test(s) I copied the contents of my mail store which is 7
layers deep in C:\Documents & Settings. It seems that your problem is not
directly related to SP2.

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

 

[William B. Lurie]

Thanks for the specific concise report, Harry.
I don't use OE at all. My problem seems to be that
my mail store is 7 layers deep starting in C:\Documents & Settings.

In the above test(s) I copied the contents of my mail store which is 7
layers deep in C:\Documents & Settings. It seems that your problem is not
directly related to SP2.

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Yes, I'm inclined to agree with you, Harry. I can conjure up
a series of tests to see just what is impeding it. It's too
much trouble for me to go back to SP1, although I guess I
could try a working SP1 at a neighbor's machine.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

Thanks for the specific concise report, Harry.
I don't use OE at all. My problem seems to be that
my mail store is 7 layers deep starting in C:\Documents & Settings.

Geez, you were given a free, simple and elegant way to do what you want, but
you persist in beating the poor dead horse. It seems you're not happy unless
your're overcomplicating something.