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Message # 23144.2.2 Subject: Thanks, helps me too.... Date: Thu 22/06/06 01:36:20 GMT Name: Placebo Effect |
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I had a laptop stolen 18 months ago, with about 3 hours of wetlook film and 100's and 100's of wetlook pics saved over six years on the HD only. Some I'd paid for too. I know....I know. I'm an idiot (not just on IT), but paid dearly for my stupidity/laziness!! The amount of times I had said to myself...."I must get this stuff on to disk" but never got round to it, from laziness and ignorance over how to. No excuse now.
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By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Wed 21/06/06 23:18:03 GMT 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes, so you could say your HDD is 80,000MB
Average picture size of 1.6 MB?
80,000/1.6 = about 50,000 pictures.
Saving to CD-ROM depends on how you want to use it, but in general you probably want to use a package like Nero. I think XP ships with some built-in CD burning software so you can just drag and drop, but I would recommend something like Nero as a simple drag-drop makes a lot of assumptions about what you want to do with the disk afterwards.
When you use CD burning software, you generally specify the type of disk: data, music, photo CD, etc. Photo CD is intended for use with a home entertainment device (such as the old Kodak photo CD viewer) and constructs the disk contents appropriately. It's a bit like the photo equivalent of making a music disk you can play on a CD player. If you create a data disk, you just use it like a floppy you can only write once - i.e. it just stores files with no specific structure other than folders as you decide to organize them. Some DVD players (my low-cost Panasonic, for example) can display jpgs burned to CD on a TV, if you follow some simple rules re: naming files and folders (explained in the player's manual).
In general, you burn a complete disk in one go. You can create multi-session disks, but they are more complicated to create and work with afterwards - I've never bothered figuring all that out. CDs are cheap and it's easy enough to organize content to fill up CDs.
Bear in mind that a CD is about 700MB - you can accommodate about 500 pictures of the size you indicated. Your 80GB HD has a capacity equal to about 100 or so CDs. Probably not practical "off-line storage" for very large collections of pictures; DVD may be better. One standard DVD = 4.7GB or 3,000 pics i.e. about 15 or so would be equivalent to the capacity of your HD. One double-layer DVD = approx 8GB or 5,000 pics or 10% of your HD.
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In reply to Message (23144) computer question from a total computer illiterate amateur
By Desert Hawk - Wed 21/06/06 22:37:56 GMT Not OT, because I am mainly talking about my collection of wetlook pictures!
How many pictures can I save to my hard drive before it is full? I have a Compaq Presario SR1500NX with an 80 gigabyte hard drive and 256 megabyte RAM. I only use this computer for the internet and sometimes the built-in solitaire and pinball games because that is all I know how to do with a computer. Since December, when I first figured out how to save pictures, I have saved 305 puctures as of right now. Probably an average file size of 1 2/3 meg per picture, with some only 1/2 meg and a few over 10 megs. How soon will I run out of storage space?
Also, how do you save a picture to a CD-ROM? I must sound like a complete idiot to actually be asking this, but I know almost nothing about computers. When i went to school, we were using DOS and 5 1/4 inch floppy discs! Writable CD-ROM drives hadn;'t been invented yet. How do you save pictures to CDs and how do you load them back to view them? I wouldn't know where to begin!
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