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   BOBABEUI | Jan 16, 2003 07:49pm | #1

   Ned,

   I would image that all you would need to do is totally copy the entire structure from the CD to your local hard drive in a directory (remeber that a CD has 622 MB of data)..

   The moral issue here is you could pass the CD around amongst your friends, it more than likely has no special licensing software internal to the CD, hence the non-answer from customer support

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   Knothead05 | Jan 16, 2003 08:09pm | #2

   Ned, your message doesn't say what you've tried or how experienced you are with computers, but the process should be fairly easy.  (That is...if Taunton hasn't put some sort of copy protection scheme on the CD.  I don't have that CD yet.)  If Taunton has done that,  or requires an installation of an  access program from the CD before you can use it, these instructions may not work without modification.

   Using Windows Explorer, set up a new folder on your hard drive, naming it something like "FWW CD" or whatever you want.  Put the Taunton CD into your CDROM drive (probably drive "D").  If it starts running, just close the program that starts to run.

   Then, still with Explorer, click on the drive with the Taunton CD in it (Drive D), and you should have, in the right side window, a list of all the folders and files in the "root" level of the CD (all the other files are contained in them.) 

   With your cursor still on the left side window, click on EDIT, then SELECE ALL, and all the files and folders in the right window should be highlighted.  Again click on EDIT, then COPY.

   Go back to the new Folder you just set up, right-click on it, and click on PASTE from the drop down menu.  Since the CD contains a lot of data (up to 650 megabytes), it may take a few minutes to write all the data to your hard drive.

   At that point, all the Taunton files should be on your computer.  Again, you may need to install an access program to open them, but I don't know without seeing the Taunton CD.

   I don't mean in any way to violate Taunton's copyright or recommend you do it either.  The information I've given you is a generic way to copy CDROM contents to a hard drive.  You can't just do a "copy CD" routine, since the CD and the hard drive are not the same form of media.

   I've done the same thing with many of Microsoft Office's clip art files from the Office CD for use when I travel with my laptop and do a lot of writing on the road.  It saves having to carry (and possibly damage or lose it.)  I respect the software companies copy prohibition rules and don't recommend violating them, but this process...strictly for your own use...shouldn't do that.

   Let me know if this helps.

   John (Knothead)

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   timberrattler | Jan 16, 2003 09:21pm | #3

   Ned,

   Thanks for that. It works.