Gee, Janice, I'll bet Julie Kidd would have an answer! She knows that the normal life of a CD is very limited, but your experience is even worse. I'm making DVDs of my GrandDaughter and I hate to think of them deteriorating. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Janice M. Healy To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:28 PM Subject: [GFO] CD question I am wondering if any one else is having trouble with the CD's put out by Retrospect publishing? I find that they will not mount properly, thrash etc once they start to get warmed up in the CD drive. In general just won't work and hang up the computer with all the thrashing etc. Once I get them out of the drive and look at them on edge they have warped into a dish with wobbles in it. I have run onto this problem with two other CD's that have self sticking labels. These are the one's by Retrospect Publishing that I have. If yours work let me know please. PA Archives third series, Vol XIX Northampton & Northumberland Counties Tax Lists PA Archives third series, Vol XVIII Berks County Tax List Beaver County The People and Towns I am working to resolve this with the company but thought it worth asking others if they are having the same problems with them. I know of one other member who has one that will not work either for the same reasons. Different computer too. Thanks, Janice M. Healy

> >Gee, Janice, I'll bet Julie Kidd would have an answer! > >She knows that the normal life of a CD is very limited, but your >experience is even worse. > >I'm making DVDs of my GrandDaughter and I hate to think of them >deteriorating. Dave This is one problem that I have run into several times it seems to only be with CD's that have self sticking labels on them. DAR put one out on the Oregon material that is now copied at the Tualitin LDS library and it does the same thing. I can get it to go if I have a cold machine and have had it cold, for short periods of time. But these Retrospect ones are brand new and they don't work at all, they just hang up the machine with all the thrashing. It is not a case of deterioration in the normal sense so much as probably a chemical reaction from the Glue in the labels. But you are right, I am very gun shy of the CD's and DVD's for photo's, I am old fashioned and want our grandson's photo's on film first and then let them put them on a CD so I have the film. Thank you but I want them to last his life time and I don't think the electronic media will. Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the FGS Conference in Salt Lake City Sept 7 thru 10 2005 Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html