Have you checked the files' properties to see if they are marked Archive or Read-only?

Are you copying to read-only CD or re-writable CD?

I have an old Iomega USB external CD burner I use once or twice a year to archive stuff -- mostly photos -- and it sometimes hiccups over any or all of those variables. I don't really know why, just that those are the things I fiddle with to make it work.

Ginger, are you using some special burning software? or the thingie that just lets you copy files onto the CD using Windows Explorer? If it's the latter, have you tried a different CD?

Pro'lly not the problem, but worth checking out....

Are you copying to read-only CD or re-writable CD?

Thanks for that idea. I was using a new disk and I just replaced it with another one and something seems to be happening.

It's good when things happen.

I'm just afraid to say it's working. I don't want to jinx it.

If it doesn't work, take deep breaths and try making a copy to a separate folder on your hard drive first. Then burn the folder.

FYI, for those travelling, [link] will retreive mail from any POP3 account (which is what most ISPs use).

Thanks for your help last night, guys. It was apparently a defective disk, but since it was brand new, that was probably the last thing I would have thought of without prompting.

Gandalfe, that's a great tip.

You know I don't get bad discs very often anymore, but back in the 4x-8x days there were as many as 5 in 100 or worse.

I wonder how sick of me the CDR makers would be by now if I would have bothered asking for replacements, as per their warrantees?