Burning Photos to Disk

When I save my photos to a CD for storage, I usually drag the iphoto file folders to the CD. When I check the CD, the folders are gone, as well as the photo names. They are in a simple list, with the IMG.JPG designation. It is a huge amount of trouble to rename all the photos and create the folders before burning the disk for good. Am I doing something wrong?
Also, when I hit "burn" at the bottom of the iphoto screen, nothing happens. I have to click on the CD icon, then right click, then "burn CD". What is the point of the "burn" button in iphoto?

Hi, Rich. The "Burn" icon in iPhoto is for burning CDs directly from iPhoto. Doing so creates an iPhoto Library on the CD which, when opened in iPhoto on the same or a diferent computer, will contain all the same information about those photos that was in the original iPhoto Library, even though most of that libriry's contents may not appear on the CD. The drawback of this method is that if you give the CD to someone who has a Windows PC or a Mac on which iPhoto isn't installed, they won't get any benefit from the work iPhoto has done to organize and store data about the pictures, and they'll probably have a hard time even locating the pictures.
When you burn a CD in the manner you describe, you're not using iPhoto, nor are you including any of the information that iPhoto has stored about your pictures. This method has no advantages at all, and you even run the risk of corrupting your original iPhoto Library, if you accidentally move something out of it instead of copying it.
A method that you may find preferable, especially if you want to share pictures with Windows PC users, is to Export the pictures for the CD to a folder on the desktop of your Mac, after selecting the options you want in iPhoto's Export dialog box. Then insert a blank CD, drag the folder full of images onto the CD's icon, and choose Burn Disk from the contextual menu that appears when you Control-Click the disc icon. The Export options allow you to give the exported images the titles you've assigned them in iPHoto, among other options.

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