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Protecting Your Pictures

Digital pictures only exists as long as you can read the files. There are no negatives to reprint. That’s why it so important to plan on how you are going to archive those thousands of pictures you’ll be taking over the next few years.

Option 1 - Burn to CD-R

Most PCs built in the past three years have a CD burner in them. You can use this to create digital copies of your pictures. Do to this, you will need to break your image files into groups of 650 megabytes. This is because each CD can only hold about 650MB.

Option 2 - Burn to DVD

Not as common as recordable CD (CD-R), some newer PCs have the ability to burn to DVD.

Option 3 - Copy to another Hard Disk

If you have another physical hard drive in your computer, you can copy your pictures to the other drive, protecting you in case one of the drives fails. This is not perfect, for if you forget to copy the images, or a virus starts corrupting your hard disk, your pictures are in jeporday.

There is software that will keep two directories in sync, such as ____ and ____.

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Useful Software

Archive Creator by PictureFlow

Archive Creator (AC) is a Windows based program that is designed to simplify the task of archiving large groups of files to CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. Its design is such that when such a group of files (the Archive Set) is too big to fit onto 1 CD or DVD it will automatically span the Archive Set across multiple discs thereby maximizing the disk storage potential of the media while minimizing the time required to organize the files in an efficient manner.