Curse you disc drive! -shakefist-
 

So I have 5 years worth of my photography on various CD-Rs and I am now working on trying to copy all the photos to my external hard drive since it'll actually have room for them all.

My problem? I just put in the first disc, easily the one with the fewest pictures on it, and the window I opened to look at the files has frozen. This does not bode well for this project...

Cheap CD-Rs degenerate over time, making them unsuitable for long-term storage. I'm sorry. :(

I've had the same problem, before.

-huggles Moonie-

I'm sorry, love!

And actually, that sounds like a really good idea... -stares at her external-

Yeah I knew they weren't the best for long term, but I didn't have money for an external until last December. And I didn't think of copying them all to the external until just last week.

Luckily I got it all done. With about 20 corrupted files out of all the discs I copied over. Most of them from the 2006 section too so it figures.

Also all my pictures took up about 80GB on my external. xD

DISC DRIVES ARE EVIL! They eat your nice scratch free discs like their steaks!