That's a good idea, using USB thumb drives. DVDs do go bad, unfortunately. I have a recording of our band's first outing, I made mp3s of the Individual songs but didn't keep the original file on the hard drive. I can see where the data is on the disc but is shows up as empty on all of our devices.
I also have install DVDs of every version of Mac OS I have used, I hope they are OK.... Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 27, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> > wrote: > > Then copy it to a USB thumb drive on the Windows system then transfer to the > Mac. It may be a wonky dvd, and the drive in the Windows laptop is more > forgiving of data errors than the Macs. If you have a Big lots nearby they > routinely have 8 and 16GB thumb drives for sale for cheap. I have a bunch > laying around that I turn onto OS X installers so I can quickly boot from one > to fix, reformat or update a Mac here at work. > > >> On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Bill Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu> wrote: >> >> P.S.: It plays fine on my Windows laptop at the office... >> >>> On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 9:45:30 AM UTC-5, Bill Spencer wrote: >>> Hi there: I got two DVDs last night from a friend, which include three >>> videos recorded last month. Two files on one DVD and one on the other. The >>> disc with two files copied across fine. The disc with one file kept failing >>> with an error 36 message. (I assume my source is a Windows user but am not >>> certain.) My quick search brought up these two pages among many others: >>> >>> https://www.macissues.com/2015/05/25/what-to-do-about-error-36-and-other-io-errors-in-os-x/ >>> >>> http://osxdaily.com/2015/02/21/fix-error-code-36-finder-mac-os-x/ >>> >>> Are these two pages on the right track? Is there some other method I can >>> use to copy the file to my Mac for editing, one that avoids this error? >>> This is a very time-sensitive project--it must be complete by Tuesday of >>> next week at the very latest--and I will be very grateful for any thoughts >>> or suggestions on this point. Thanks! >>> >>> Bill Spencer in Maryland >>> Mac Mini 2.6 GHz i5/10.11.6 >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette >> guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com >> To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iMac Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
