You can create folders on the cd when you are setting up the burn. Its not necessary to use CDRW disks for this, but you need to do a standard burn rather than pre-format and create a drag and drop disk (some program will do it on a CDR, but its recommended that you ONLY use CDRW for the drag and drop). I usually build the cd on my hard drive in that I use a program to create thumbnails in an HTML page and then use an html page that I construct for the index. This links to the various folders and the index page that I build inside each folder. When you create the cd, if you want to add more later, be sure to use the multisession method. Check the help of your program to find out where or what the settings are for your particular one. In nero, it asks on the wizard if you want to add, continue or create a disk that you cannot add again. The wizard is very helpful with a number of different situations including video.
Here is a pretty good primer on CDR help and FAQ. Keith Thompson scubic wrote: > I finally got my regular CD drive replaced with a burner. I wanted this > mostly to store photos. I'm sooo green at this! > > I bought a 50-stack of blank CD's, and a 5-pack of R/W CD's--the ones you > can apparently reuse? > > I have many hundreds of pictures stored on my hard drive--well-organized > into folders. Trouble is, I still add new pictures to these folders. > > Can you create folders on a CD and add things to them? If so, do you have > to use the R/W variety, and does adding things to it involve 'reburning' > the entire CD? Some people have told me that there IS a limit to how many > times you can successfully reuse/rewrite a CD? > > Is there any way to add things to a regular CD? (not the R/W). Or are they > basically a one-time-use thing? The salesman was babbling something about > being able to use the entire space on a regular CD, over time, as long as > you didn't "finalize" it? I've not happened across an option like that yet. > > The software "Nero Express" was included with the burner. The instructions > consisted of a Quick-Start" pamphlet. I can "copy an entire CD" with no > problem, but what I really want to do is get these photos off my machine > onto CD's, be able to organize them into their proper folders, and add more > photos to folders as necessary. > > Is there a good web site that might explain all of this? I really don't > want a terribly technical explanation--just some basic theory. > > I found this site, but it was quite technical and did not tell me what I > want to know: > http://www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Comp > > It's a fun site to poke around on, though! > > Sue > -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Here is further away than you think. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
