Posted by Don M. on 09/03/05 21:37

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message news:3nu0bsF3a0c9U1@individual.net...
>
> I have recently come to a decision about archiving - I find that the
> business of burning stuff from HD to CDR (or even DVDR) is unnacceptably
> fraught. Firstly, I don't really want to do it, and only do so when a
> drive starts getting filled. It takes a long time to organise what to
> put on which CDR. Then they have storage problems as discussed. Then I
> can't find the file that I know I have because it is very hard to keep a
> catalogue of 100's of CDs up to date - even using cataloging software,
> can't take away the repetion of putting the next disc in the drive to be
> read, reading it, and then replacing it with the next. Then there is the
> difficulty of keeping them all numbered correctly.
>
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Good grief. If you're too lazy to do any organizing, you'll be bitching regardless of
your storage medium. A little planning is all it takes. Say you store CDRs in spindles.
Number spindles - 01, 02, etc. Then name each CDR you archive in your cataloguing
software, and label the CDR accordingly.
01-Mariah Scarey, 5 Cent
01-Hard Sell, Pee Diddly
|-Non-Stop Erotic Cabinet
|-1-Crustacean
|-2-Fainted Luv
|-
01-Rap shingles

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