Drag-and-Drop to a CD

I believe you can, just so long as your CD is rewriteable (CDRW). Otherwise, it will become read only and will be stuck on there.

You can save them to file to be written to cd, until you reach the space available on your cd, then write the cd....If you want to store them off the computer and add files now and then, it would be best to use a USB flash drive...You can drag and drop files in anything...

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Yes, sort of. Some programs support what's called packet writing (originally incremental packet writing) that allow drag-and-drop and leave the disk open. However, there seem to be compatibility problems between programs and even versions of the same program, such that the potential of losing access to the data is high . You can Google 'packet writing' for more detail.

Here are 3 possibilities:

1. CDR's are cheap. Write to a CDR using the regular record-at-once method. Then when you have more photos, copy the old files off your CD, add the new files, and burn a new CD. Throw the old one away or keep it as back-up, but make sure you keep up with the latest one.

2. As Mizuti mentioned, you could do basically the same as in 1., but erase the CDRW and re-use it instead of throwing it away. I don't know how many times a CDRW can be erased and reliably record again.

3. Use an external hard drive. This would allow files to be added/removed/re-arranged at will and can be connected to any PC with a USB port. This would be the most convenient if you are adding photo files often.

Probably a hardware specialist...

Sure you can drag and drop files to a CD. Most CD burning programs do support this function. The same program also let you do the choice of closing the CD or leave it open after burning. In this case any new addition to the CD would make it a multi Session CD. The problematic comes with the reading device and whether or not this can handle Multi Session. DVD player might struggle when trying to display on a TV.

The other thing would be trial and error. With CD's cheap as ... anything why don't you try and let us know how it went. No need for experts when you have the toys to play with in front of you.

I agree with this but would just add that 'open' CDs can have trouble being read by anything other than the machine they were written in. The same can apply to CDRWs.

I have been doing this for several years now with no problems.

Oh, I don't use Windows.

Never mind.

Using the built-in burning capabilities of Windows (XP and up) you can do this. Windows does need to know that burning is allowed for the drive/burner you are using, but if you haven't touched any of Windows, default settings, it most likely is. The key part you are desiring, which is to have a multi-session disc, is most likely what Windows is doing. To confirm it, just do a test and drag a few files to the drive in My Computer. This will also tell you if drag and drop can happen with a non-rewritable disc. If it does, then try to read the files and if the burn was OK then repeat the process. If it works again, then the disc was burned as a multi-session disc.