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Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2496
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 10:54 am: |     |
I want to back-up photo files from 2005 onto CD, but not sure how. Tried to copy some photos to CD a week or two back and ultimately didn't get it right.
Using Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Can someone give me the steps? |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1777
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 11:27 pm: | |
cough-cough, dare I say it, should I utter the three letter word?
While I haven't used "M$ Office Picture Manager", you could just forgo that, and then burn the individual files (images) off of the computer (fromn wherever they are saved), having nothing to do with MOPM. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 929
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 9:48 am: | |
Agreed. Put the CD in the drive, let XP "Open a writable folder", then do a simple drag-and-drop on the photo files. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2502
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 10:03 am: | |
Don't know what three letter word you're talking about. Just an idiot who uses whatever comes with the computer because I don't have any clue what else to use. It's worked o.k. for me thus far. I would be interested in using a better program, but don't know what that would be. Adobe?
Anyway, I still have no idea how to copy them on to CD-R, either image by image, or the entire file containing many images. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2505
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 10:18 am: | |
Case, just saw your post. Must of done that while I was thinking about my response to Monster. It sounds simple the way you've described it but, unfortunately I have no idea how to let XP "open a writable folder." My other question is: am I dragging and dropping entire folders full of images, or am I dragging and dropping individual images. If it's that latter, I'll be here for a very long time dragging and dropping hundreds of photos. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 936
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 9:40 am: | |
I just sent you a PM, if you're in Maplewood/SO I can swing by and check it out... it should not take more than 10 minutes. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2508
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 10:40 pm: | |
Case, a very generous offer on your part and I thank you again for making it! |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1787
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 1:06 am: | |
Yeah, that three letter word would be "Mac"
Windows XP comes with software that will burn CDs and will allow you to back up your data. For the most part, the Windows XP software allows you to simply drag and drop your files to a CD and then burn them easily. This is similar to the Direct CD component of Easy CD Creator. Direct CD is included in Easy CD Creator and was the model for the XP burning software. The company that made Easy CD Creator also makes the XP software.
Burning a cd in xp goes something like this,
To create a CD using Windows XP insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW into the CD burner. If you receive a dialog box asking you what to do with the CD, select Open Writable CD folder in Windows Explorer. That should bring up a blank screen ready for copying files. If you don't get this dialog, open "My Computer" and open the CD-R or CD-RW from there.
After opening the disk (E or whatever drive letter is assigned to the burner) from My Computer or the dialog box, again go to the desktop or start menu and open My Computer in another window. Navigate to the desired file on one of your other floppy, zip, CD or hard disk drives, using the navigation toolbar at the bottom of the screen you can open both the blank CD drive window, and drag the desired files from the source drive to the destination blank CD.
With both E drive (destination) drive and source (whatever drive(s) contain your source files) drive windows on top, arrange them so you can see both the contents of the source drive and the E (destination) drive.
With the D drive visible, click once on the folder or file and drag it to the E drive window. When you let go of the icon, the files should begin copying.
Once all the files you need have been copied to a temporary folder on your hard drive and are ready to be written to CD, you need to click on the "Write Files to CD" link found in the first section of the window to the left of the main body.
This is because you can change the files to be copied at any time until clicking the link. Before this step, all files are on your computer hard drive in a temporary file folder.
After clicking on the Write to CD link, you should see a CD Writing Wizard. Name your CD an appropriate name for your purposes. Since this is a new CD, the default name in XP will usually be the current date. Select the text and delete it. Replace the date text with a memorable name for your CD and click Next.
The CD will write your files to the CD and the disk will then be complete. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2510
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 1, 2006 - 8:01 am: | |
Thank you for the very clear and concise instructions Monster!
A friend who knows computers came over and helped me get the job done. Took 4 CD-R's to copy all my files. She also introduced me to a new photo program called Picassa that you can get free from Google. Looked very cool and exciting when she showed me all the fun features--but now that she's gone I can't figure it out! 
Happy New Year. |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1794
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, January 1, 2006 - 4:29 pm: | |
I forgot all about Picasa, it's pretty easy to use, and the getting started guide can be found here, http://picasa.google.com/help/userguide_organize.html
for those of you who have Picasa, you may want to upgrade to Picasa 2, now available, http://picasa.google.com/ |
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