Genealogy Chat

I hope someone can help. I have numerous scanned images from slides stored on my hard drive. I am trying to get them onto disc. But find I can only get about 26 images on one disc. They are stored as Tif's to keep the quality. Is there a way to get more images on the disc (disc is 4.4GB) someway by compressing? Many thanks.

Hello, TIFFs are large image files and you are right to want to keep them stored in this format. However you will never be able to to store all of your images onto just one disc. You can burn them onto several discs instead. You have several other options: one is to burn your images onto a DVD. I'm a Mac person and use iDVD to burn all of my own images onto a DVD-R. Depending on the TIFF size, you can effectively triple the amount of stored images that you would normally get onto a CD. If you add a soundtrack or a quicktime movie as well then the amount of storage for TIFFs will go down. The only draw-back to storing on DVDs is that you will only be able to view the burnt DVD on your computer...unless you have a DVD-R/DVD-W compatible DVD player, then you can also view your images on your TV. Another option is to purchase an extra internal harddrive and have it put into your computer. You can then use the new hardddrive as a slave drive to store all your images. You can also use an external harddrive in exactly the same way - you just plug the USB connection into your tower or laptop and use the external drive to store your images. I would still burn your TIFFs to CDs as a precautionary back-up, harddrives do die on you sometimes, partiuclarly if you've been infected with a virus. Kind regards, Jackie

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