what to use for copying photos onto disk

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I am about to embark on a task: copying all my photos
onto a cd, what I have available is DVD-RW disks, what is
the difference between using the DVD's as opposed to the
music-copying types. I made a copy of "Yves Alarie's" e-
mail reply to [subject] "cannot copy photos to CD" and
will follow those steps, **THANK YOU Ms.Alarie!!**, along
with any necessary tutor.'s. Is it just a waste to use a
DVD when a CD-R will do? My son is away and has some
blank cd's downstairs, but they have absolutely nothing
written on them so I don't know what "type" they are.
The blank DVD's I have are Sony 120min./4.7GB.
As an infant in the computer world, I would appreciate
any information on this.
Thanks!,
"Big Tech.Toys-little knowledge"
SUZ
 
A CD-R or CD-RW has room for 700 MB (0.7 GB) of files. For practical use you
can count on about 600 MB of usable space.
A photo from a 3 Megapixels digital camera is about 1 MB (1,000 KB). So you
can store about 600 such photos on a CD.

A DVD-R or DVD-RW has room for 4.7 GB. About 7 times more than a CD-R or
CD-RW.

So it really depends on how many photos (and their file size) you have. If
all your photos can fit on a CD-R this is fine, no need to use a DVD-R.

However, I don't like to fill CDs full of photos. It takes time for photos
to open and find the photos you want. CDs are so cheap that I prefer to copy
groups of photos to different CDs.

If you have blank CDs, it does not matter if they are CD-R or CD-RW, the
procedure to copy photo files to them using XP is the same. Also, some CD-R
are "music" CD and have 800 MB of storage instead of 700 MB. No difference
to copy photos on them. So, any blank CD will work.
 
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