-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Burning question--Lil

Sorry I´m late replying to your message.  Haven´t had much time for the 
puter these past days.  Now have to go through 80+ messages :o)

I´ve never had anything like what you said happen to me in EZC... I hope you 
did not delete your original files after copying them!!!  I wonder if its 
something to do with DVD.  As I said, I never burned DVDs with it, only CDs. 
I am going to install EZC 6 and have a look around and see if I come up with 
something.

A bull -mastiff jumping on you could be quite a disaster <g>  I had 3 
labradors that wanted to sit on my lap simultaneously...  They are long gone 
now and we have 12 cats instead, one loves to sleep between the monitor and 
the keyboard !

Regards
Lil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sammi" <sammi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:44 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Burning question--Lil


> Hi Lil,
>
> When I try to open the file, no matter what format it uses, jpg or gif or
> doc...the image or file does not come up. The file has the correct icon on
> some, but the file size is 0. And instead of the CD being 600 plus MBs, it
> is only 3.5 MBs for example.
>
> If you hear of a wild-eyed g'ma running around pulling out her hair,
> shrieking and babbling...it's me! LOL. This is really teaching me a lot
> about my computer, my EZ Creator 6 and that I *should* have been backing 
> up
> this stuff all along. Duh. Like most things (like diets) I start strong 
> and
> it goes down hill from there. Because XP is so much more stable than W 98
> was, I got complacent and forgot what I have always told others to do.
>
> I have spent most of the evening organizing, rearranging and testing my
> EZC6. I had forgotten there were so many things that I liked about it. I 
> was
> nearly through with a 4 G DVD test...when my big ol' bull-mastiff jumped 
> up
> to give me a big sloppy kiss, his foot hit the keyboard and canceled it! I
> didn't even get cross with him; if he thinks that he has done something
> wrong, he gets very stressed. We rescued him from a slow starvation and he
> is the sweetest most loving dog we have ever had; his former owners didn't
> know what a treasure they had.
> Fortunately for him and for me...I had saved the project in EZC6 and all I
> had to do was load it again and run the test again. I have an older 
> version
> of Nero, but it says it's for W98 SE. I am going to stick with EZC6 for
> right now and see if the other things I am working will help.
>
> Thanks for your post,
> Sammi
>
> Lilian wrote:
>> But what happens when you try to open the file you burned?  For
>> instance the
>> jpg or gif, does the image come up when you click it?  I also used CD
>> Creator 6 (now I use Nero) but I dragged the files inside the CD
>> Creator
>> windows, not in Explorer.
>>
>> Lil
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Sammi
>> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:10 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Burning question
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just when you thought I was gone...LOL. Below you will notice I use
>> the
>> words *seem* and *appears*, that is because I am not sure about
>> anything
>> anymore on my pc.
>>
>> Because of all of my PrtScn/memory problems, I am trying to do all of
>> those
>> backups that I should have done before. There are a few problems I am
>> running into that may impact my new backups.
>>
>> 1.  I often encounter this message:
>>     "The file xyz.ext has extra information attached to it that might
>> be
>> lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file will not be
>> affected.
>> Do you want to copy the file anyway?" What the heck does this mean?
>> Why
>> would it have extra info that would be lost and what is the
>> information? I
>> have gotten this msg on zip, jpg, gif and other extensions. Do I need
>> to
>> worry about it? I don't want to continue to make backups when I keep
>> getting
>> this warning/alert.
>>
>> 2.  I have tried using my version 6 of EZ CD Creator to make my
>> backups, but
>> when using a DVD for this purpose, it seems to be a hit and miss
>> result.
>> Some files are OK. Some look like they are OK, but the file size is
>> 0. So
>> far I have a few 'coasters' instead of backups. The DVDs/CDs are too
>> expensive for me to keep experimenting.
>>     On some of the DVDs, there will be parts that are OK...and part
>> of it
>> just *looks* OK. The only way I can tell is to run my cursor over the
>> file
>> and check the file size. And some files have the 'unknown' icon and
>> zero
>> file size. I rather doubt that using a different burning program
>> would give
>> me better results.
>>
>> 3.  It appears that the most secure way to burn a CD seems to be
>> using a CD
>> and not a DVD. The method of copy and paste each item seems to be
>> 'sticking'
>> to the CD. At least it seems that way. Short of checking every single
>> file
>> on the burned media, I can't be sure that any of them are really
>> good. The
>> only drawback to using this method is that I will have to use a *lot*
>> of CDs
>> for my large folders of images, sound files, fonts etc.
>>
>> 4.  Also on using a DVD, it appears that you cannot create a folder
>> without
>> using a burn program. I tried bypassing the folder creation by
>> copy/paste
>> directly through Windows. But then I get the Windows has encountered a
>> problem with ....
>>
>> This morning with both sticks in, the PrtScn worked fine. The burn
>> function
>> is iffy. I have removed and replaced those two sticks so many times I
>> could
>> do it in my sleep.
>>
>> Last night, after posting on the Dell community forum, I was advised
>> to run
>> a Dell Diagnostic from the Utility partition on my PC. It didn't show
>> anything that might be wrong. It passed every test with flying colors.
>> Except that my pc is NOT working right, hahah.
>>
>> If I can get around the problem I'm having with making backups at
>> least that
>> will be one more problem I can quit worrying about. Anyone have any
>> ideas to
>> help me with this new wrinkle?
>>
>> TIA
>
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