Judging by the replies, I suspect my cd/dvd burner is stuffed. I'll try with Picasa, but if that doesn't work, it's kaput. I've tried the drag and drop in windows explorer and various other things to no avail. Also, the dvd type is fine for the drive. Damn, I think it may have had it.
James ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:00 PM Subject: Re: Backing up images to DVD > Are you using the right type of media for your drive? Can you burn > anything > to DVD? Also if your drive is really full you might be having buffer > issues > (I'm just thinking out loud here). > > I use Nero that came with my DVD drive & it's pretty simple. > > Start Nero, click "Make Data DVD", select the folder I want to burn (my > .pef's are arranged in folders of 350 files ~4.3MB), name the disk & > click > the "Burn" button. A few minutes later it spits out the disk & asks if I > want to burn another. > > Another thing, if your using Windows XP you can just click & drag the > folder you want to burn onto the disk in Windows Explorer and then right > click on the disk in Explorer & click "Write these files to CD". > > Dave > > > At 04:15 PM 31/10/2006, J and K Messervy wrote: >>I give up, I've tried repeatedly to burn image folders to dvd with zero >>success. I have a dvd burner and using cyberlink power dvd, tried to burn >>a >>few folders of images. After about half an hour, the disc ejected and the >>program told me it had been burned successfully. >> >>Of course, when I insert the dvd in the drive and check it with windows >>explorer, there's nothing there. I tried it in Adobe Bridge and, you >>guessed it, nothing there. >> >>Is there some kind of secret to saving data files to dvd? Using cds is >>pointless because I'd rarely fit even one whole folder on one cd. >> >>Please help! My 100gb drive is full and I thought I'd burn some dvds to >>free up space, but it just won't work. >> >>James > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
