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| Thread ID: 83215 | 2007-09-24 00:50:00 | Problem with photos on disk unreadable | Beemer (6956) | Press F1 |
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| 594362 | 2007-09-24 02:59:00 | Another thing is, does XP's or Vista's built in cd burning FINALISE the cd?? I dont know, I dont use the built in cd burning. That maybe another reason why the CD's cant be read on other computers, besides Windows? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 594363 | 2007-09-24 03:55:00 | Whats amazing is that they still require you to submit your work on cd! Most of the publishers I deal with have an FTP server that i can dump work into and they have it instantly... Of course you could do the same at your end.. Obtain some free server space ( available all over the place these days ) and upload the images. Email the publisher a link to download them.. Submitting stuff on CD via post/courier is just a drag.. |
racepics (7812) | ||
| 594364 | 2007-09-24 04:54:00 | Whats amazing is that they still require you to submit your work on cd! Most of the publishers I deal with have an FTP server that i can dump work into and they have it instantly... Of course you could do the same at your end.. Obtain some free server space ( available all over the place these days ) and upload the images. Email the publisher a link to download them.. Submitting stuff on CD via post/courier is just a drag.. You obviously don't deal with many trade publications, national groups like Fairfax or government departments! Some say "oh, just email them" but even if I resize the images to about 1MB they bounce back as their mail system won't accept large files! Add to that the fact I take about 100 photos per job (some of which they use as file photos) so copying to CD and posting takes far less time than uploading images to a remote server. Also, I live in the country and have a pretty crappy excuse for broadband so there's no point me paying for more than the basic package because it's not available to me - so my 1GB limit would be gone in a heartbeat. Speedy, yes, if you click on 'eject' a message appears to say that the disk is being finalised so it can be used in any computer so there's no way of missing that step. |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 594365 | 2007-09-24 04:57:00 | Beemer - Did that product key come through at all on a PM, and was the Ashampoo any use to you. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 594366 | 2007-09-24 05:13:00 | Agreed - emailing files is a joke which is why I have 200GB of server space to dump files to:) Having said that, I'm still surprised at how many NewsPaper and Magazine editors find accessing an FTP server is beyond them. No wonder they cant read your CD's...:waughh: Ouch! Igb data limit.. you have my sympathy....:( Getting back to your CD/DVD problem - the Win/Mac read-conflict is very real - had the same issues when a library requested RAW files on Data-DVD Nero is probably your best bet. You get a new Nero CD with every CD or DVD drive that you buy - so I have a few spare here :) - contact me if you want one. |
racepics (7812) | ||
| 594367 | 2007-09-24 05:44:00 | Wainuitech, yes thanks, I did get the PM with the code in it. I've downloaded it but haven't got anything I want to copy at present so I haven't tested it. Racepics, I got a CD of Nero when I got my last CD drive (old computer) but have no idea where it is now. I didn't find it that user-friendly - every time I tried I seemed to encounter problems. Mind you, that was about three or four years ago so it may have improved now. I tend to only use 1GB because my downloading is mostly opening and viewing pages online rather than downloading music, etc or gaming. But I have noticed that I am regularly exceeding my limit now I have changed to Paradise's PDQ (yeah right!) plan. With Xtra I never got the "you have reached 80% of your limit" email but almost every month I go over my 1GB with Paradise. I am doing an online course right now so that could be the reason for the extra usage but it's annoying because I always exceed it a few days from the end of the billing period so I only get to use about 100MB of the next 1GB! I wish there was some easy way to pass on my photos but at this stage CD and post is the easiest. The army has a server that they can all access but because I am a contractor I don't have access to upload anything so that is out for me. At least it's easier than prints and negatives! |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 594368 | 2007-09-24 06:02:00 | Personally I've found Nero 6.0 to be the nicest, easiest to use etc.. Version 7 seems to be somewhat bloated and harder to navigate. But these days I use linux/k3b, hence all the unused nero coasters :) Paradise PDQ is what I have - and its good and fast most of the time - but I'm not rural so thats probably where its comin unstuck for you. 10-20GB per month allows for a few Linux ISO's and plus there are 4 puters here all eating at it.... You can get 200GB of server space at dreamhost.com for about $10/mnth. They have a cool user panel to setup anything you need in that space. |
racepics (7812) | ||
| 594369 | 2007-09-24 12:18:00 | Nero is probably your best bet. You get a new Nero CD with every CD or DVD drive that you buy - so I have a few spare here :) - contact me if you want one. Usually the Nero discs supplied with the drives are OEM versions, and are tied to and will only work with, those drives :illogical:D |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 594370 | 2007-09-24 12:43:00 | Quote > "Usually the Nero discs supplied with the drives are OEM versions, and are tied to and will only work with, those drives" < Not so. I placed my copy of Nero6. OEM, on a new Liteon drive, that came with Nero7.OEM ... Works perfactly! :thumbs: Regards. |
DUNK (1527) | ||
| 594371 | 2007-09-24 12:47:00 | You could try This (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) Have no idea how good it is, never used it.It's good. Get the CdBurnerXP Professional version - it's free. |
Greg (193) | ||
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