Burning CD

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

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
kpardee said:
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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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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