First of all, your hard drive is a perfectly good place to save things. You have a folder called My Documents that contains a folder called My Pictures. Since many camera and photoshop programs are geared toward using this folder, I suggest you use it.
Of course, you're going to want to back up this folder on a regular basis. If you have Windows XP, you can use the CD Burning Wizard for this purpose. Open Windows Explorer, select the folder/file(s) you want to write to the disc, right click the selected files, hover over Send to, then select CD-RW (or DVD-RW) drive. Windows will copy the files to a temporary location and a little (annoying) bubble will pop up telling you there are files waiting to be written to the CD. Click that and a box will pop up showing files on the disc and files waiting to be written to the disc. Click File, Write these files to CD. This is a little slow compared to your regular burning program, but it can do multi-session and it's really convenient.
my computer has no floppy drive so if i want to save anything that i have on my computer i generally burn it onto a blank cdr as a data cd ideal for saving your pictures on
Osprey....I am so sorry, but I am still confused. Is there a certain kind of drive that you have to have in order to save pics on a CD-R. I can't find anything called a CD Buring Wizard. I have looked and cannot find one. I have a lot of pics saved on my computer and they are taking up a lot of my memory and I need to get them off, but I don't want to just delete them. I want to save the pics. So, this is the process that I am using. I am emailing the pics to myself on a different computer and then pulling them up in my email and then when I try to save it, it keeps telling me to insert a CD in drive D. So, is there something that I am not doing right?
Confused, my fault for assuming. Do you have a CD-RW drive? Check device manager to see what you have. Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware tab, Device manager.
If not, let me know and I'll be happy to make a recommendation for a drive with the necessary software.
Like I said, thanks for your help. I don't have a CD-RW drive. I appreciate your recommendations, but I am not going to purchase a drive for work. I will find one somewhere. Thanks so much for your help. I definitely know where to come to now if I need some help. You have been wonderful. Thanks so much
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First of all, your hard drive is a perfectly good place to save things. You have a folder called My Documents that contains a folder called My Pictures. Since many camera and photoshop programs are geared toward using this folder, I suggest you use it.
Of course, you're going to want to back up this folder on a regular basis. If you have Windows XP, you can use the CD Burning Wizard for this purpose. Open Windows Explorer, select the folder/file(s) you want to write to the disc, right click the selected files, hover over Send to, then select CD-RW (or DVD-RW) drive. Windows will copy the files to a temporary location and a little (annoying) bubble will pop up telling you there are files waiting to be written to the CD. Click that and a box will pop up showing files on the disc and files waiting to be written to the disc. Click File, Write these files to CD. This is a little slow compared to your regular burning program, but it can do multi-session and it's really convenient.
Please post back if you need more help.
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confused2005
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Osprey....I am so sorry, but I am still confused. Is there a certain kind of drive that you have to have in order to save pics on a CD-R. I can't find anything called a CD Buring Wizard. I have looked and cannot find one. I have a lot of pics saved on my computer and they are taking up a lot of my memory and I need to get them off, but I don't want to just delete them. I want to save the pics. So, this is the process that I am using. I am emailing the pics to myself on a different computer and then pulling them up in my email and then when I try to save it, it keeps telling me to insert a CD in drive D. So, is there something that I am not doing right?
TIA for your help, confused
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Confused, my fault for assuming. Do you have a CD-RW drive? Check device manager to see what you have. Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware tab, Device manager.
If not, let me know and I'll be happy to make a recommendation for a drive with the necessary software.
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March 3rd, 2005 12:00
Like I said, thanks for your help. I don't have a CD-RW drive. I appreciate your recommendations, but I am not going to purchase a drive for work. I will find one somewhere. Thanks so much for your help. I definitely know where to come to now if I need some help. You have been wonderful. Thanks so much
Confused
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March 3rd, 2005 20:00
Confused:
If you want to save files off a computer, a CD-RW drive is the way to go. You can get one for under $30.
Post back any time. Glad to help.