Customizing Folders

[Tony P.]

Hello,

I have a picture archive that I store on a DVD+RW. If you right click a
folder on the hard drive and select Properties, under the properties for
that folder, there should be a Customize tab. With the customize option you
can place a picture on the folder which shows up in thumbnail view. But when
I try to do this with one of the folders on the DVD+RW, the customize tab is
missing from the Properties pop-up. I don't know if this is by design or
what. I've gotten around it copying one of the pictures on the DVD folders
to a file called folder.jpg. This file becomes the picture file for that
folder. Is this supposed to work this way or do I have a problem?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Depends on how you created the dvd. How about sharing what program you used
to create it and what procedure you used.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I have a picture archive that I store on a DVD+RW. If you right click a
folder on the hard drive and select Properties, under the properties for
that folder, there should be a Customize tab. With the customize option
you can place a picture on the folder which shows up in thumbnail view.
But when I try to do this with one of the folders on the DVD+RW, the
customize tab is missing from the Properties pop-up. I don't know if this
is by design or what. I've gotten around it copying one of the pictures on
the DVD folders to a file called folder.jpg. This file becomes the picture
file for that folder. Is this supposed to work this way or do I have a
problem?

As DVDs are basically read-only, once written, the customise option will not
be there. I guess that you are adding files in a multi-session. Maybe you
should try Mount Rainier format, which is standard in Vista, but you could
use something like Nero InCD. If your DVD burner supports DVD-RAM, you
could try one of those discs instead.

ss.