Keep careful note of the target folder name for the CD/DVD content you have just created (i.e. the folder name you specified in Step 8 of the Make CD/DVD Wizard). You will need this.
When you have created the content for your Family Tree CD/DVD, the next step is to ‘burn’ it to one or more CDs or DVDs. The actual burning of a CD or DVD is beyond the scope of this help - you will not use Family Historian for this - but we can offer some pointers.
To burn a CD you need a CD writer or CD rewriter. To burn a DVD you need a DVD write or DVD rewriter. Any DVD writer or rewriter can almost certainly also burn CDs. But the reverse is not true. If you have a CD or DVD writer or rewriter this will almost certainly have come with burning software that will do everything you need. When you use this software, you may be asked what kind of CD/DVD you want to create, e.g. data or audio. If asked, you want to create a data CD or DVD - one that is suitable for distribution to other computers.
In the unlikely event that you have a CD or DVD writer or rewriter but it did not come with software for burning a CD or DVD, you may still be able to do it anyway, if your version of Windows has the capability built in. Most versions of Windows since Windows XP have CD burning capability built into them.
When you use software to burn a CD or DVD, you will have to specify which files are to be copied to the CD or DVD. You must specify all the files within the folder you chose as your target folder, when making the CD/DVD contents. Be aware that this folder will contain a subfolder called ‘data’. You must select this folder too, and all of the files that it contains.
If you have done everything correctly, the CD/DVD will have the following files only in its ‘root’ folder:
It will also have a folder called ‘data’ which will contain numerous other files.