At 11/10/2006 09:33 AM, ThomaStudios wrote: >I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of >hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at >least a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something, >and the disc wound NOT mount or would not read the files. Damn, >floppies were more reliable in their day! > >Now, all my backups go to an external drive and a tape backup. So >far, no failures with the tapes, knock on wood.
I had (and have) a lot of floppy problems You can create them and read them on the same machine, but a different machine says they are unformatted.
I wonder if Macs are less reliable at reading CDs than Windows? Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale