Powerpoint Saving to RW CD why is it read only

[Guest]

Having saved a powerpoint presentation to a RW CD, I now find that i cannot
update the information at the file says it is READ ONLY. How do I amend this
presentation? do I need to purchase additional software to make my PC able to
save files as RW. Help much appreciated as I am totally out of my depth!!
Presentation due very soon.
Many thanks
Pat

 

[Michael Koerner]

All material when copied to a CD is copied as Read Only. You should do all
your editing on your Hard Drive, then copy to the CD

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"Desperatepowerpointperson"
| Having saved a powerpoint presentation to a RW CD, I now find that i
cannot
| update the information at the file says it is READ ONLY. How do I amend
this
| presentation? do I need to purchase additional software to make my PC able
to
| save files as RW. Help much appreciated as I am totally out of my depth!!
| Presentation due very soon.
| Many thanks
| Pat

 

[Austin Myers]

You can not update a file on a RW CD, you can delete it and burn a new file.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com




"Desperatepowerpointperson"

 

[Echo S]

As the others explained, files burned to CD always become Read Only. You
can't work from a CD like you can from a regular hard drive. (I hate these
programs that pretend to let you use your CD drive like a regular drive --
you're just asking for corrupt files.)

Copy the file to your hard drive, then open My Documents, navigate to your
file, right-click it, and choose Properties. Uncheck "read only."

Make your changes, then burn the file to CD.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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"Desperatepowerpointperson"

 

[Darrell S]

Having saved a powerpoint presentation to a RW CD, I now find that i
cannot update the information at the file says it is READ ONLY. How
do I amend this presentation? do I need to purchase additional
software to make my PC able to save files as RW. Help much
appreciated as I am totally out of my depth!! Presentation due very
soon.
Many thanks
Pat

The only way you can write directly to a DVD is through "packet writing"
programs like Direct CD. But packet writing programs are unstable and there
is a history of problems using it. I recommend you make a working folder on
your hard drive. Copy your DVD contents there (if they are not already on
your hard drive) and do your editing there. When finished, use your DVD
burning program to overwrite your old stuff with the new. Using DVD-RW you
can do this unlimited. Using just DVD-R you can do it until the DVD space
is used up. On DVD-Rs you don't regain the space the previous version used,
it only changes the content listing to "see" only the most recent version of
files using the same name. If your PPT program is not large and you won't
change it much it is cheaper to use DVD-R rather that DVD-RW media.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The only way you can write directly to a DVD is through "packet writing"
programs like Direct CD. But packet writing programs are unstable and there
is a history of problems using it. I recommend you make a working folder on
your hard drive. Copy your DVD contents there (if they are not already on
your hard drive) and do your editing there. When finished, use your DVD
burning program to overwrite your old stuff with the new. Using DVD-RW you
can do this unlimited. Using just DVD-R you can do it until the DVD space
is used up.

Is this more standardized than it is for CDRs? There, you can keep writing to
a CD but sometimes you can't read the CD on other computers unless they happen
to have the same software or you use your own software to "close" the CD.

That too may have gotten more standardized of late, but I *still* hear horror
stories about it. IMO, multisession CDs aren't worth the risk unless you're in
a pretty controlled computing environment (ie, have another computer or two
that you could use to close CDs with when your own box goes toes-up and nobody
else can read your backups).

YMMV and probably does. Am I being too cautious? ;-)


On DVD-Rs you don't regain the space the previous version used,