Lars D. Noodén wrote: > I've only had a few problems with corruption of compressed files, these > have been due to media failure. e.g. floppy disks over 8 years old, > Iomega zip disks over 6 and home-burned CDs over 14 months old. > > Those last ones rather pissed me off. I bought some new CD-Rs and > burned some backups and then shipped them. The shipping company not > only tried to double bill me, but also lost the entire shipment for 14 > months (it should have taken a few days). When the shipment arrived, I > check the files and found that more than a handful had gone bad. Since > I had checked just after making them, I know that they had been good at > one time.
I read somewhere that data recorded on a CD-R is supposed to be good for between 100 and 200 years. They must have spent some time in an environment that's hostile towards CDs during those 14 months. Were they bound to or from the US? Maybe one of the countries they travelled through was on the terrorist list and they got held up at the CIA or something. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
