saving files to disc

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I have many picture folders in "My Pictures" that I would like to save to
CD's. The help box in My Pictures refers to clicking on "Save to CD" located
in the Files & folders Tasks on the left hand side of the My Picture folders,
but there is no such verbage on my screen. I Have XP home edition. If I
try using "Copy this File", when I highlight the file and then click on CD-RW
D Drive, I keep on getting message "Insert disc in D drive, even tho I have
already put the disc in.

Frustrating!
 
bobe said:
I have many picture folders in "My Pictures" that I would like to save to
CD's. The help box in My Pictures refers to clicking on "Save to CD" located
in the Files & folders Tasks on the left hand side of the My Picture folders,
but there is no such verbage on my screen. I Have XP home edition. If I
try using "Copy this File", when I highlight the file and then click on CD-RW
D Drive, I keep on getting message "Insert disc in D drive, even tho I have
already put the disc in.

Frustrating!
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Did your drive come with a CD management utility like Nero or Easy CD
Creator? Those are more versatile than the native Windows abilities.
They also have modes (unfortunately not compatible with each other) for
CD-RWs that are more suitable for situations where you want to add files
to the same disk on different occasions.

Note that data you intend to put on a CD are sometimes saved to a hard
drive folder and then burned onto the disk as a group when you "close"
the disk writing session. In many cases the information on the disk will
not be readable until the writing session has been closed. Depending on
the disk burning software you are using, opening further writing
sessions might not be possible with that individual disk. A few CD
drives, especially older read only ones, might not even be able to read
CD-Rs that have been used for more than one writing session.
 
There seems to be some difference in the wording you have to what I see
re "Save to CD". If you have the non folder view on the right hand
side, you should see a list of tasks under the Picture Tasks heading.
This includes, View as a Slide Show, etc.
At the end of the list is the option to 'Copy to CD'. Having selected a
folder, then click this option. If you do this without a CD in the
drive, you should get a bubble prompt saying you have files waiting to
be written to the CD. Click on the bubble and you will be taken to
folder view of files ready to be written to CD. If you get this far,
you will then see the option on the right hand side under CD Writing
Task saying Write these files to CD.

Let me know if this works, if not I can give you other options because
there are many ways to achieve what you want.
 
Thanks for your response. I should have mentioned I recently had a Memorex
CD-DVD burner installed. I suspect that may have something to do with it. I
have written to Memorex and hopefully they will come up with something.
Thanks again.
 
Pete:

I have just now solved my problem. With the new Memorex burner, there came
the program that allows me to perform various tasks, such as "Make a Data
DVD", "Backup files", "Copy DVD", etc. Even tho there was no provision for
working with pictures, I decided to try putting the pictures onto the disc
thru the "Make a Data DVD" selection, and lo and behold, it worked. Guess
pictures are still considered as data. Thanks very much for you efforts.
 
Bobe:

OK, good to hear you have a solution.. .there are sooo many ways to do
things, sometimes too many.
Yes, photos are data. Also, unless you want an audio CD for playing in
conventional CD players, then you also copy MP3 music as data.

If your XP is set up to detect and play CDs when inserted, then an
alternative to running your Memorex software, is that when you put a
blank disk into the drive, XP should automatically ask you what you
want to do. You get a list including one to run your burner software.
One of the options is to open a folder window for the disk. If you
choose this, you can just drag and drop any files you like (using
windows explorer) into the disk folder. These are temporary files, you
then choose the 'write these files to CD' option. If you change your
mind, just delete the temporary files from the CD windows folder.

Cheers.
 
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