Burning CD

[kpardee]

I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for on floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's. I saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came out "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought the Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after using that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into the data on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP and Nero hasn't replied to my emails!

[Wesley Vogel]

Change the attributes of those files *before* you try to burn them to CD.
Find the data you saved
Left click one file to highlight
Hit Ctrl + A to Select All
Right click
Properties
Clear the Read-only check box
Apply
OK

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,
kpardee > hunted and pecked:
> I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for
> on floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's.
> I saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came
> out "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought
> the Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after
> using that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into
> the data on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP
> and Nero hasn't replied to my emails!

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Any data copied to CD would be read-only, that is the nature of the media.
That is not the problem, as you can open and use read-only files on a CD,
you just cannot change the data unless you are using packet writing and CDRW
media.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"kpardee" > wrote in message
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>
> I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for on
> floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's. I
> saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came out
> "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought the
> Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after using
> that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into the data
> on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP and Nero
> hasn't replied to my emails!
>
>
> --
> kpardee

[kpardee]

I neglected to say that I had previously used CDRW Cd's AND had changed the attributes of the file to be copied.... it does NOT say "read only" until after I burn it to the CD!
Karen
Hi,

Any data copied to CD would be read-only, that is the nature of the media.
That is not the problem, as you can open and use read-only files on a CD,
you just cannot change the data unless you are using packet writing and CDRW
media.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"kpardee" wrote in message
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I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for on
floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's. I
saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came out
"read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought the
Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after using
that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into the data
on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP and Nero
hasn't replied to my emails!


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kpardee

[kpardee]

Thanks, but I neglected to say I had already done that. The files I'm copying don't say "Read Only" and I am using CDRW blank Cd's that I formatted on the InCd first.
Karen
Change the attributes of those files *before* you try to burn them to CD.
Find the data you saved
Left click one file to highlight
Hit Ctrl + A to Select All
Right click
Properties
Clear the Read-only check box
Apply
OK

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,
kpardee hunted and pecked:
I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for
on floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's.
I saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came
out "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought
the Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after
using that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into
the data on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP
and Nero hasn't replied to my emails!

[Shenan Stanley]

kpardee wrote:
> I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for
> on floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's.
> I saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came
> out "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought
> the Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after
> using that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into
> the data on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP
> and Nero hasn't replied to my emails!

When you burn data to a CD, it becomes READ ONLY. When you copy it back -
in most cases, it changes back to regular and you have no problem. Some
applications (Outlook comes immediately to mind) will refuse to read read
only copies of certain files because they must want to do something every
time to said file.

In any case, you can easily backup your address lists on CDs for storage,
but don't expect to edit them while they are there. Also - you are using RW
CDs, correct? You should at least be able to "save over" the files you put
on a CD-RW - and/or reuse that same CD over and over and over.

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[Tom]

Copy all the files back to your PC (hard drive), then format the CDRWs =
to the InCD packet writing format, then copy the files back to the InCD =
disk. You then will be able to manipulate them on the fly. Keep in mind =
that any packet writing software can be unreliable, and it isn't very =
reliable after so many uses on the same disk.

"kpardee" > wrote in message =
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> Thanks, but I neglected to say I had already done that. The files I'm
> copying don't say "Read Only" and I am using CDRW blank Cd's that I
> formatted on the InCd first.
> Karen
> Wesley Vogel Wrote:=20
>> Change the attributes of those files *before* you try to burn them to
>> CD.
>> Find the data you saved
>> Left click one file to highlight
>> Hit Ctrl + A to Select All
>> Right click
>> Properties
>> Clear the Read-only check box
>> Apply
>> OK
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>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>> Wes
>>=20
>> In ,
>> kpardee hunted and pecked:-
>> I run a home business with 500 clients that I have address labels for
>> on floppies. The floppies are full. I want to convert them to CD's.
>> I saved the data to my hard drive and tried burning them, but it came
>> out "read only" and I couldn't get in the data on the CD. I bought
>> the Nero6 which includes the InCD, and tried that, but even after
>> using that I'm STILL getting "read only" and am unable to get into
>> the data on the cd. PLEASE HELP. I need an answer to this ASAP
>> and Nero hasn't replied to my emails!-
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> kpardee