Photo's

[Guest]

I don't know if this is an xp problem or not..hopfully someone will direct me
if not. I have downloaded pictures from my digital camera onto my computer
and worked with them using a cheap finishing program and then save them to
file using "jpeg". I've copied some to a disk and taken it to several places
where they have those do-it-yourself photo processing booths and each time it
says the disk cannot be read. Does it have to do with the program I've
designated to open the pic file..It shows I'm opening them using "microsoft
picture and fax reader". Any help would be appreciated

 

[R. McCarty]

What type of disk ?, assuming it's an Optical CD-R or DVD-R your
problem may be that the disk wasn't "Closed". Many burning apps
can do multiple sessions which leaves the disk "Open". If you have
another PC try your disk in that CD/DVD drive and see if you can
see the content with Explorer.
Usually, the Burning application has an option for Closing the Disk
or a "Disk-at-Once" feature.

 

[Mike Mueller]

Another possibility along this lines is that the poster may
be using a drag-n-drop formatted CD, like prassi-abcd or
direct-cd


message : What type of disk ?, assuming it's an Optical CD-R or
DVD-R your
: problem may be that the disk wasn't "Closed". Many
burning apps
: can do multiple sessions which leaves the disk "Open". If
you have
: another PC try your disk in that CD/DVD drive and see if
you can
: see the content with Explorer.
: Usually, the Burning application has an option for Closing
the Disk
: or a "Disk-at-Once" feature.
:
message
: : >I don't know if this is an xp problem or not..hopfully
someone will direct
: >me
: > if not. I have downloaded pictures from my digital
camera onto my
: > computer
: > and worked with them using a cheap finishing program and
then save them to
: > file using "jpeg". I've copied some to a disk and taken
it to several
: > places
: > where they have those do-it-yourself photo processing
booths and each time
: > it
: > says the disk cannot be read. Does it have to do with
the program I've
: > designated to open the pic file..It shows I'm opening
them using
: > "microsoft
: > picture and fax reader". Any help would be appreciated
:
:

 

[Guest]

I used Sonic RecordNow program to transfer the pics to disk and I just
checked it and found I have "close session once completed" check marked.
Recently I just moved a pic from file to a 1.44mb floppy diskette not using
the Sonic program at all and the diskette could not be read by all the photo
processing machines.

 

[R. McCarty]

Diskettes are "Notorious" for head alignment issues. Your "Best" answer
is a small USB Thumb (Flash Memory) drive. You can get a 250 Meg
size unit for as little as ~$8.00. No issues with alignment, closure, etc..
I'm assuming most of these photo processing facilities can access a USB
device.

 

[Guest]

Mike..not sure what your saying..sorry

 

[Guest]

I have a 1GB USB flash that I use to take work files to work...I'll try that
next time..hoping the processing booths have USB. Might try putting them on
my cameras compact Flash card..I know they have slots for those. Thanks to
all for the advice.

 

[Tim Slattery]

I don't know if this is an xp problem or not..hopfully someone will direct me
if not. I have downloaded pictures from my digital camera onto my computer
and worked with them using a cheap finishing program and then save them to
file using "jpeg". I've copied some to a disk and taken it to several places
where they have those do-it-yourself photo processing booths and each time it
says the disk cannot be read. Does it have to do with the program I've
designated to open the pic file..It shows I'm opening them using "microsoft
picture and fax reader". Any help would be appreciated

Certainly has nothing to do with what you're opening the JPEGs with on
your own computer. Probably you're using packet driver software that
allows you to use your CD somewhat like a large floppy drive. Drives
written with these things are not always readable on other machines.
See if there's a mode where you drag all the files you want on the CD
to a holding area, and when you have everything ready you tell the
software to create the disk. (Like the built-in CD burning software
in Win XP.) Disks created that way have very few problems on other
machines.