On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Keith MILLS wrote: > >> A friend has sent me a CD of photos of the charity fĂȘte 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_______________________________________________ Check your Finder preferences to make sure that show 'CDs, DVDs & iPods' on desktop is checked. John -- Define: De thing you get for breaking de law.