Posted by GMAN on 10/16/06 18:01

In article <453252C0.84BD77C2@blueyonder.co.uk>, Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>Don Quixote wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have thoudsands of digital photos on my HD and do not want to lose them,
>> so I burned them onto a DVD-R disc. I did not exceed the disc's capacity (in
>> fact it was far less than the capacity) and the message from Nero 6 burner
>> did not give me any error message upon completion. But when I tried to view
>> some photos I found alot of them were corrupt or only partially viewable.
>>
>> Is there any guideline as to how many files I can burn on a DVD-R disc? I've
>> got about 2200 files on the disc and apparently that is too much. Or is
>> there any other suggestion, like using another software or different type of
>> DVD-R disc ? (Mine is a normal DVD-R for storing data)
>>
>> Thanks and have a nice day!
>
>I was wondering about folders etc, found this little snippet
>
>"If you store your photos on CD, you'd want no more than 640 megabytes
>of pictures in one master folder; if you store them on DVD, you want 4
>gigabytes of pictures in one master folder. Within the "master" would
>be subfolders for each photo shoot, each memory card or each day of
>shooting, however you break it down."
>
>Don't know-how realistic that is as I don't burn to dvd, but I always
>put my pics in folders.
>
That is good advice, you do not want all of your files in the root directory
of a CD or DVD ever.

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