Customizing Folders

Hello,

I have a picture archive that I store on a DVD+RW. If you right click a
folder on the hard drive and select Properties, under the properties for
that folder, there should be a Customize tab. With the customize option you
can place a picture on the folder which shows up in thumbnail view. But when
I try to do this with one of the folders on the DVD+RW, the customize tab is
missing from the Properties pop-up. I don't know if this is by design or
what. I've gotten around it copying one of the pictures on the DVD folders
to a file called folder.jpg. This file becomes the picture file for that
folder. Is this supposed to work this way or do I have a problem?
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Thanks,
Tony
For replies, please correct my email address.

Depends on how you created the dvd. How about sharing what program you used
to create it and what procedure you used.

"Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:uO5qHItXIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I have a picture archive that I store on a DVD+RW. If you right click a
> folder on the hard drive and select Properties, under the properties for
> that folder, there should be a Customize tab. With the customize option
> you can place a picture on the folder which shows up in thumbnail view.
> But when I try to do this with one of the folders on the DVD+RW, the
> customize tab is missing from the Properties pop-up. I don't know if this
> is by design or what. I've gotten around it copying one of the pictures on
> the DVD folders to a file called folder.jpg. This file becomes the picture
> file for that folder. Is this supposed to work this way or do I have a
> problem?
> --
> Thanks,
> Tony
> For replies, please correct my email address.
>

"Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:uO5qHItXIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I have a picture archive that I store on a DVD+RW. If you right click a
> folder on the hard drive and select Properties, under the properties for
> that folder, there should be a Customize tab. With the customize option
> you can place a picture on the folder which shows up in thumbnail view.
> But when I try to do this with one of the folders on the DVD+RW, the
> customize tab is missing from the Properties pop-up. I don't know if this
> is by design or what. I've gotten around it copying one of the pictures on
> the DVD folders to a file called folder.jpg. This file becomes the picture
> file for that folder. Is this supposed to work this way or do I have a
> problem?

As DVDs are basically read-only, once written, the customise option will not
be there. I guess that you are adding files in a multi-session. Maybe you
should try Mount Rainier format, which is standard in Vista, but you could
use something like Nero InCD. If your DVD burner supports DVD-RAM, you
could try one of those discs instead.

ss.