On 9 Dec 2003 at 15:07, Richard Huggins wrote: > It seems to me that some sort of backstop scenario ought to be > followed by all of us by which we preserve in an organized way the > files that might be needed by clients in the event we no longer can > provide them or do the new work the publisher desires. Something that > a third-party coud understand, such as (just guessig here) and CD > inside a jewel box to which was affixed a label saying, "Send to Acme > Publishing." This could be updted or a series of such CDs or disks > could be done, I presume, as projects are done. If some of you on the > list have such a plan, how about sharing what your plan is?
CDs go bad. I have a CD of a concert I performed in a mere 2.5 years ago that is unplayable. All copies of it are now unplayable. And it was recorded directly onto mini disk and the original is unplayable. The hard drive on the computer that the CD copies were made from died a couple of years ago, so the original disk images are gone. From the CD, we now only have two tracks that I happened to record to another CD that I made for someone and kept the disk image. Yes, this is audio, so it's perhaps different from data, but the point is this: CDs are not even close to being a permanent data storage method. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
