Cant view pictures in Vista "Corky" <corky.karen[ at ]verizon.net> 10/4/2008 5:43:32 PM I have a CD of pictures that I got from my brother. It has four file folders of pictures taken from four different digital cameras. All were downloaded to his computer and he copied them to the CD. My HP Vista Home Premium laptop will not show the pictures in three of the file folders. It only show the pictures from my camera. It says the other folders are empty. However, when I put the CD in my old XP computer, I can view all of the contents of all of the file folders, so I know the pictures are actually there. What is keeping them from appearing on my laptop? Corky

Re: Cant view pictures in Vista "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 10/5/2008 3:09:16 AM Corky wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a CD of pictures that I got from my brother. It has four file > folders of pictures taken from four different digital cameras. All > were downloaded to his computer and he copied them to the CD. My HP > Vista Home Premium laptop will not show the pictures in three of the > file folders. It only show the pictures from my camera. It says the > other folders are empty. > > However, when I put the CD in my old XP computer, I can view all of > the contents of all of the file folders, so I know the pictures are > actually there. What is keeping them from appearing on my laptop? > > Corky ================================= Do you have a memory card or a flash drive? Open the pix on your XP machine and copy a few to your removable media then download them to your Vista machine and see if you can view them. -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk

Re: Cant view pictures in Vista dbknox <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/5/2008 3:30:53 AM Seems a lot of people are having the same problem. I can't answer your question as to why your Vista won't show all the folders on the CD, I would suspect the media and the program used to write to the CD's I used Nero burning rom for all my pictures and have had no trouble going from WIN 98 to XP and to Vista. My old Nero program is not compatible with Vista so I now am using "Burnaware free version" with "Verbatim" media. I find that when I burn with this program and media, the CD/DVDs work on all other OS's, whereas a CD burned with the Vista software (ie: in multisession) would not show all folders on my XP machine. I can point you to a free program so you can extract the pictures from the CD . 'License models for IsoBuster and Freeware vs. Shareware policy' (http://www.isobuster.com/license-models.php) Read the page carefully so you know what the free function will do. Every once in a while a nag screen will pop up to purchase, just ignore it if you wish. Good luck. Please let us know how you make out. -- dbknox

Re: Cant view pictures in Vista "Corky" <corky.karen[ at ]verizon.net> 10/5/2008 5:10:54 AM I was able to copy all of the pictures to a flash drive (from the XP computer) and they were then visible on the Vista laptop so I now have the pictures where I want them. I suspect that the problem lies with the method that was used to copy the pictures to the CD by the brother. Will continue to try and solve the mystery so we won't encounter it again. Thanks for the help. Corky ___________________________________ "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> wrote in message news:e3cXBfpJJHA.1160[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Corky wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a CD of pictures that I got from my brother. It has four file > folders of pictures taken from four different digital cameras. All > were downloaded to his computer and he copied them to the CD. My HP > Vista Home Premium laptop will not show the pictures in three of the > file folders. It only show the pictures from my camera. It says the > other folders are empty. > > However, when I put the CD in my old XP computer, I can view all of > the contents of all of the file folders, so I know the pictures are > actually there. What is keeping them from appearing on my laptop? > > Corky ================================= Do you have a memory card or a flash drive? Open the pix on your XP machine and copy a few to your removable media then download them to your Vista machine and see if you can view them. -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk

Re: Cant view pictures in Vista "Corky" <corky.karen[ at ]verizon.net> 10/5/2008 5:13:04 AM Thanks. I have the pictures on the laptop now. Flash drive worked. I also think the problem lies with the program used to write the CD originally. Am investigating that with the brother to try and ensure we don't have the problem again. Corky ______________________________ "dbknox" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:274cd5a3009ea249d4c468ed467e8ab0[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... Seems a lot of people are having the same problem. I can't answer your question as to why your Vista won't show all the folders on the CD, I would suspect the media and the program used to write to the CD's I used Nero burning rom for all my pictures and have had no trouble going from WIN 98 to XP and to Vista. My old Nero program is not compatible with Vista so I now am using "Burnaware free version" with "Verbatim" media. I find that when I burn with this program and media, the CD/DVDs work on all other OS's, whereas a CD burned with the Vista software (ie: in multisession) would not show all folders on my XP machine. I can point you to a free program so you can extract the pictures from the CD . 'License models for IsoBuster and Freeware vs. Shareware policy' (http://www.isobuster.com/license-models.php) Read the page carefully so you know what the free function will do. Every once in a while a nag screen will pop up to purchase, just ignore it if you wish. Good luck. Please let us know how you make out. -- dbknox

Re: Cant view pictures in Vista "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 10/5/2008 7:33:56 AM Corky wrote: [Quoted Text] > I was able to copy all of the pictures to a flash drive (from the XP > computer) and they were then visible on the Vista laptop so I now > have the pictures where I want them. I suspect that the problem lies > with the method that was used to copy the pictures to the CD by the > brother. Will continue to try and solve the mystery so we won't > encounter it again. > > Thanks for the help. > > Corky ======================================= You're welcome. You did solve the issue...the problem is with the CD. Thanks for the update. -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk

Re: *More* Cant view pictures in Vista "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 10/5/2008 7:43:04 AM Here's a freebie that may be worth a try for burning Data CDs on the XP machine. CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/ (runs on Vista also) -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk ================================ [Quoted Text] > Corky wrote: >> I was able to copy all of the pictures to a flash drive (from the XP >> computer) and they were then visible on the Vista laptop so I now >> have the pictures where I want them. I suspect that the problem lies >> with the method that was used to copy the pictures to the CD by the >> brother. Will continue to try and solve the mystery so we won't >> encounter it again. >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> Corky > ======================================= > You're welcome. > > You did solve the issue...the problem is with the CD. > > Thanks for the update.