How many "mysterious" blank media discs you got laying around your comp?

[Death Metal Moe]

I just took an hour and finally finished the long, boring job I began last month on another boring night. I took all the unmarked CD-R's and DVD-R's that I have collected around my computer and dealt with them. Labeled some, discarded others, broke apart a select few so that no one could access what was on them.

Any other tech peeps have this happen? I'll burn a movie, back up some music, put some pictures on a disc to print at a photo kiosk and 2 years later I'm surrounded with blank media I can't identify.

Give it 6 months and I'll have another few hour's worth of discs to deal with, I'm sure of it.

[boosterp]

I don't even know the count. One day I will begin to go through the ones from the olden days and see if anything is worth keeping. 4x CD-R, wonder when that was last fast in burn standards?

[Death Metal Moe]

Lol, I should have guessed boosterp would be the only one to respond to this. The guy I've been geek talking Netbooks with for 2 days.

OK sorry, I guess this is kind of a hacker/tech geek problem and not many of you, even ones who are somewhat tech savvy, will have.

[Death Metal Moe]

This is officially worse than my "Drummers get no respect" thread, and who would have thought that was possible?

[Hottub]

At home I'm pretty good aboot that. I keep a sharpie at the ready. My outstanding smelling desk is pretty well organized.

At the office is another story. I get dozens of disks from clients. Most of them are shit. They burn a shortcut from their desktop to CD, and I'm supposed to get them ready for print?:wallbash:

Every couple of weeks, me and my co worker play dead disc frisbee. It cleans the office and lets off some steam.

Good thread, Moe.

[ToiletCrusher]

None on my desk at all. But tons in my desk drawers. I try to look at what's on them sometimes but there are just too many!

[Death Metal Moe]

REPLIES! And real ones! Thank GOD!

[Death Metal Moe]

The big problem is I had a lot of music that I must have lost the original disc too.....

that I hadn't put back on my iPod since I had to restore it, and hadn't put on my new HD since my last HD failure. So I kinda had to put the music back on my desktop to add to the iPod, but sorting through a pile of unmarked discs is annoying. Sure, if I kept track of it from the beginning I wouldn't be making this thread. Thanks Mom.

[Marc with a c]

zero

[underdog]

I threw out 7 that were just sitting on the passenger floor of my car the other day. They just pile up everywhere. You'd think by now I'd leave sharpies around.

[Hottub]

. You'd think by now I'd leave sharpies around.

Randy does.

[Marc with a c]

You'd think by now I'd leave sharpies around.

sharpies and rum don't mix. i thought you learned that this weekend.

[Death Metal Moe]

zero

Yea well that probably means you PAY for everything.

:: points and laughs ::

Hey there Big Spender! Woah, outta Rockafeller's way! He's off to buy software, movies and music at FULL RETAIL!!

[Death Metal Moe]

sharpies and rum don't mix. i thought you learned that this weekend.

Hey If you weren't there and involed, you aren't allowed to have an opinion!

[Marc with a c]

Hey If you weren't there and involed, you aren't allowed to have an opinion!

if you were there i would've drawn all over your turban.

[biggestmexi]

m-e-d-i-a discs?

HDD?

[Death Metal Moe]

if you were there i would've drawn all over your turban.

http://www.ep.tc/problems/seven/thats_racist.gif

[underdog]

sharpies and rum don't mix. i thought you learned that this weekend.

Don't mix, or mix perfectly?

[TooLowBrow]

I just took an hour and finally finished the long, boring job I began last month on another boring night. I took all the unmarked CD-R's and DVD-R's that I have collected around my computer and dealt with them. Labeled some, discarded others, broke apart a select few so that no one could access what was on them.

Any other tech peeps have this happen? I'll burn a movie, back up some music, put some pictures on a disc to print at a photo kiosk and 2 years later I'm surrounded with blank media I can't identify.

Give it 6 months and I'll have another few hour's worth of discs to deal with, I'm sure of it.

i have all the r+f's and o+a from about 2002 plus a mix from earlier.
they take up over 700 cds
ive gone through about 4%

yet still when i make a new one i never label it
probably because i get to back and re listen to old shows occasionally

[badorties]

i have dozens of dozens of discs laying about ... after two crashed PCs (before i was a bit smarter about recovery), i've been holding on to some of these data-discs-of-tunes for 8+ years

there've been some songs that fell thought the cracks, and i just don't have anymore ... but, i'll probably just throw them out -- i couldn't tell you when the last time i even touched them

probably as much as i go to my mini-discs

[drjoek]

None

[KnoxHarrington]

I found about 7 copies of the Windows 7 beta I'd burned to discs, being too damn lazy to dig through the unlabeled ones at the time and just deciding to burn a new one if I needed the disc for any reason.

[sr71blackbird]

I have tons of them. I hate it. I wish they had a portable viwer that I can pop it into and see what it is and then lable what it is.

[ravn816]

I'm a Media Project Manager...so yeah. Perhaps one or two (hundred)

Seriously...Not even going to look at my massive archive of What the Fuck.

[topless_mike]

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when i was packing back in october, i went through each and every disk i own searching for something i cant find.
if there was nothing i needed on it, i dumped the disk. otherwise, it was properly labeled and packed.

[topless_mike]

At home I'm pretty good aboot that.

you fuckin canadian all of a sudden?

[boosterp]

Lol, I should have guessed boosterp would be the only one to respond to this. The guy I've been geek talking Netbooks with for 2 days.

OK sorry, I guess this is kind of a hacker/tech geek problem and not many of you, even ones who are somewhat tech savvy, will have.

You and I should be fellow geek friends. :laugh:

[Death Metal Moe]

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when i was packing back in october, i went through each and every disk i own searching for something i cant find.
if there was nothing i needed on it, i dumped the disk. otherwise, it was properly labeled and packed.

OK well you're good NOW, but back in October you were with the rest of us.

[Doctor Manhattan]

None.
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5457/sharpiemarkerfineblack.jpg
I keep one of these near my unused media and label it when I burn something to them.

[topless_mike]

OK well you're good NOW, but back in October you were with the rest of us.

yes.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Millions. Or dozens. Feels like a millions.

[Gvac]

You should see how many discs I have in my car that I have absolutely no clue what's on them until I pop 'em in the CD player.

I have no idea why I never label them.

[weekapaugjz]

You should see how many discs I have in my car that I have absolutely no clue what's on them until I pop 'em in the CD player.

I have no idea why I never label them.

forgetfulness comes with old age.

[Death Metal Moe]

None.
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5457/sharpiemarkerfineblack.jpg
I keep one of these near my unused media and label it when I burn something to them.

A lot of people have said "I have a sharpie and label them all" but that doesn't help when you get a disc from someone sometimes and/or bring one in from the outside. You end up loading it that night but putting it down, and it's lost within the night.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

My problem primarily is that I don't want to write down which pornstars are on the DVDs just in case someone ever checks.

Oh and everything is stolen. Everything.

[Death Metal Moe]

Oh and everything is stolen. Everything.

It don't make ya a bad person.