Hi guys. I've recently been to a rather hurridly arranged wedding and discovered that the pictures I took are needed by the bride and groom for their album as theirs are not very good. I wanted to simply save them onto a CD-R and in order to do this simply copied the folder from 'My Pictures' onto the D drive in my computer and followed the brief instructions. Great, easy I thought, great for a novice like me.
Realising that I had a large number of family pictures stored on this PC (most of which are backed up on an external HDD), I then decided to try to copy them onto a DVD-R using the same technique. Unfortunately it didn't work and I later discovered that XP apparently doesn't write to DVD
I have a Nero suite which came free with the computer which I believe I can use for this purpose but the instructions/help provided is rubbish - mostly meaningless to me sadly..... I think, however, that Nerovision Express is what I need but am a little confused. From what I can tell the jpg picture files saved to DVD-R will be turned into DAT files which will then be uneditable. If true, this is fine for pictures which I want to keep exactly as they are but not so good if there are images I may wish to modify at some point when I finally get around to it. Presumably the wedding jpg files I copied onto CD-R can still be edited by the happy couple from the disc I gave them. If so, why can't the files I write to DVD-R be edited? If I am correct, presumably I will still need to keep all the original jpg files somewhere else (either on CD-R or an externall HDD) where they can later be accessed and edited if required.
Finally if Nerovision Express is OK for what I need to do (I really don't want to be downloading new software etc.), does anyone have any tips on how to use it......
I just want to backup the files as easily as possible really - nothing fancy. I started out thinking this would be a simple drag/drop task but it seems not.....
Thanks in anticipation everyone