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[Black Deatha]

I'll make this quick, I have several game trailers and gameplay videos, I want to keep them, but they are just taking up size on my harddrive (it's only a 40gig). I only bought the DVD burner about a month ago and only burned my first DVD with it the other day. THis is also my first burner in general so I dont know a lot about this yet. Now what my question is about this, I have put the variious video files I have in different folders(catagorizing them). Today I just picked up a pack of Kodak 8x DVD+R's. at Future Shop, a 25 pack spindel for $19.99 (not a bad deal). I have just over 2gig worth of video's and I plan to burn more on to the same disc as I get them. Now here's the question, when I go to burn additional videos on hte disc later, can I 1. Add more folders? and 2. can I add new videos to already existing folders?

As an example, I have one folder for GTA videos (with different videos in it form 3 VC and the SA trailer, so when Rockstar releases another SA trailer (like they did with VC) will I be able to burn the new SA trailer in to the GTA folder?

Once I know I will procede with burning.

~Black Deatha

 

[The Shadow]

I'll make this quick, I have several game trailers and gameplay videos, I want to keep them, but they are just taking up size on my harddrive (it's only a 40gig). I only bought the DVD burner about a month ago and only burned my first DVD with it the other day. THis is also my first burner in general so I dont know a lot about this yet. Now what my question is about this, I have put the variious video files I have in different folders(catagorizing them). Today I just picked up a pack of Kodak 8x DVD+R's. at Future Shop, a 25 pack spindel for $19.99 (not a bad deal). I have just over 2gig worth of video's and I plan to burn more on to the same disc as I get them. Now here's the question, when I go to burn additional videos on hte disc later, can I 1. Add more folders? and 2. can I add new videos to already existing folders?

As an example, I have one folder for GTA videos (with different videos in it form 3 VC and the SA trailer, so when Rockstar releases another SA trailer (like they did with VC) will I be able to burn the new SA trailer in to the GTA folder?

Once I know I will procede with burning.

~Black Deatha

Yes and yes.

As long as you created the initial burn as "Multisession" and didn't close it, you can continue to add files and folders until it's full.

 

[Black Deatha]

Yes and yes.

As long as you created the initial burn as "Multisession" and didn't close it, you can continue to add files and folders until it's full.

Cool thanks man.

The other DVD I already burned was jsut all the different Half Life 2 videos I have had on my PC (including those ratehr larger Binks) but I also left it open for more.

~Black Deatha

 

[Black Deatha]

Ok, new question. I just finished burning the disc, and now I am just looking through the files to make sure everythign worked when i notice in most (but not quite all) folders there is a file called "Thumbs" and it's a Data Base File. What the hell is this? I know I didnt burn it on...

~Black Deatha

 

[The Shadow]

Thumbs.db is created by the Windows XP file system and is generally hidden unless you enable "View System Files".

I'm not entirely sure what it's really for but I highly suspect that's where Windows XP stores the thumbnail cache it generates when you view folders and files as thumbnails.

 

[Black Deatha]

Ah, so it's nothing to worry about, all I needed to know, thanks man.

~Black Deatha