Re: Storage wars

2017-02-05 Thread Mark C
I had similar experience a few years ago when I transferred by archives from CD's / DVD's. In my case the CD's were more of a problem though some of the DVD's did not read either. I'd second the idea of trying different drives. I used a laptop and two desktops and found that often one drive of

RE: Storage wars

2017-02-03 Thread John Coyle
-Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2017 3:03 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Storage wars Unfortunately CDs and DVDs aren't nearly the permanent storage medium they've been made ou

Re: Storage wars

2017-02-03 Thread P. J. Alling
Unfortunately CDs and DVDs aren't nearly the permanent storage medium they've been made out to be. The dyes that are used can degrade over time depending on temperature, chemicals in the atmosphere moisture and heat among other factors. The commercially made optical disks are better than ho

Re: Storage wars

2017-02-03 Thread David J Brooks
seems it is now intermittent sometime they work sometime they don't. Sessions should all be closed and they were burned on the iBook G4 using Roxio Toast. The CD's seem fine. Dave On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: > Your discs could be unfinalized. This is convenient if you wan

Re: Storage wars

2017-02-02 Thread Anthony Farr
Your discs could be unfinalized. This is convenient if you want to add files to a disc in multiple sessions or if you only ever read them on a single computer, but is a problem when you want to read discs on a different machine, such as in the future when you've retired the computer or drive that o

Re: Storage wars

2017-02-02 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:32:13PM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > Way back when i stored my picture files on CD's or DVD's. When i > replaced my aging PC with the current iMac i took the old HD out > bought a case and pulled files from it when needed. This drive is now > failing so i decided to put

Re: Storage wars

2017-02-02 Thread David J Brooks
I did have DVD success last month when i did one or two of them. Perplexed for sure. Dave On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:32 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > Way back when i stored my picture files on CD's or DVD's. When i > replaced my aging PC with the current iMac i took the old HD out > bought a case an