[X-Newbies] CD of Photos

[Steven Rogers]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Keith MILLS wrote:

> A friend has sent me a CD of photos of the charity fête that we  
> organise in our village (in TIF format). Normally when I insert a  
> CD, it shows up on the desk top. This time - nothing. I am no  
> expert and I have no idea of where to look. And believe me, I have  
> tried.

If the media is unreadable, or is an unrecognized format, that is  
sometimes what happens (i.e. nothing). If it has a scratch or lots of  
fingerprints, that could cause it. It might be helpful to know what  
created the disk - e.g. was it created on a PC, or did it come from a  
photo processing shop, or a photo scanning kiosk, etc. Back in the  
"old days" not every drive could read every type of CD-R blank. Some  
would not read the gold ones, the green ones, etc. But unless your  
Mac is pretty old, I can't imagine that being the problem.

SR