USING CDS FOR FILE SAVING/STORAGE

[JUDY PALMER]

Please tell me 1/ do i need to format a cd prior to saving
a MS Word document(s)???
2/how do i save a document to a cd?

Thanks for helping....there does not appear to be any
answers available thru regular channels on this...

 

[Ron]

I suggest that you subscribe to this newsgroup: alt.comp.periphs.cdr and
post your question as there are many well informed CDR users there.

Ron

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Judy,

You should not attempt to work directly with the CD. Work with your
documents on the hard disk and then after closing them, copy them to the CD,
following the procedure in the CD writing software that you are using.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Judy,

Just to expand a bit on what Doug said:

It is *possible* to work with a Word document on a CD, if you format the
disk with "packet writing" software such as Nero InCD or Roxio DirectCD.
This kind of software makes the CD work essentially like a giant floppy
disk.

The main problem is that Word keeps temporary files in the same folder as
the document, in this case on the CD. If you forget that you have a Word
document open (and thus the temporary files also) and pop out the disk to
put in a different one, your document will instantly become (probably
unrecoverable) trash.

Floppy disks are even worse, because it's easy for the total space used by
document + temporary files to exceed the disk capacity, and that causes
document corruption.

As a final argument against writing directly to CDs, even the fastest CD is
much slower than any hard disk.