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
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Subject: Re: Storage wars
Unfortunately CDs and DVDs aren't nearly the permanent storage medium they've
been made ou
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
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
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
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
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
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