Please can I have an idiots guide to downloading my stuff onto CD's please............

[guyFAwkesreQuiem]

I'm trying to get this old computer cleared of all my stuff so I can get my nice new shiny one set-up, and give this one back to exH.

But I'm not sure how to do it - I have lots of discs, so far I've put all the photos into the CD Burning folder (well that's where they went when I exported them ) - how do I actually get my stuff onto the discs????

Please

help???

I've got lots and lots of stuff, it's all sat there in the folder, but when I try and select a few of them to write to the disc it tells me there's too much and I have to reduce it?

Does this mean I clear the "waiting to be written to CD" folder and start again just putting in as much as can be done at once????

it looks like you will have to clear it. I don't normally use this, but I can't find any way to just burn some of them without starting again.

Also be aware that if you do a batch of music files it will offer the option to make an Audio CD. Sometimes this is what you want, but otherwise choose 'make a data DVD' to just put them on there as files just as they are now.

thanks onager - I did manage to delete most of it from the folder - but it would let me delete one as it said access denied blah blah blah.

Then it seemed to have written some stuff to the CD after that...........but now the CD won't open - it just sticks - when I try and look at it.

Think I'm just going to have to give the discs, and the computer to exH, smile sweetly and remind him he owes me one. I lent him some money for his deposit so he could secure a place of his own and in desperation to sell the house before the bank repossess he's decided to give one of those "we'll buy your home FAST" type companies a go - so they're apparently going to ring me to come and value the house (which we already know will be a figure under the market value) and I have to sit and listen to their sale crap..........for me the latter is much worse than him owing me some money (which I'll be getting at the end of this week anyhow)

That sounds like a plan Good luck with the CDs and the house.

Quick and easy (if more expensive) solution. Buy an external HDD (30 to 60 quid) and copy the whole lot onto that.

oh you must be joking - I don't want everything off this computer - it's 7yrs old and has been used for 2 adults, 1 business start-up attempt and numerous other projects for other people!!!!! Even my stuff is due a "spring clean"

Ah well there's your answer then. Get some kind person to buy you a new PC (XP) with say a 160GB hard drive and a DVD writer (Over 4GB storage per disc) for later on.

oh I have a lovely new computer - been custom built for me using the (other) lovely computer I was given which hadn't been upgraded properly (and as a result I fried the motherboard ) - it's currently sat on my dining room table waiting for me to finish faffing with this "old faithful" (hand built by exH with bits and pieces he picked up cheap at Computer Fairs lol) - I just don't have an external hard drive - and don't intend to splash out on one when I can get exH to download my stuff for free

Oh yes I forgot you said you did have a new one! That's good then.

And yes I know just what you mean about downloading very economical!

No joke.

Just because you've got an external disk, you don't have to copy everything onto it (or off it onto the new machine). Me I'd copy everything onto the external disk and then copy what I need onto the new system when I need it. After 6 months or a year, anything you haven't copied yet, you obviously don't need, so wipe the external disk and hey presto, your spring clean is complete.