On 2011-06-08 14:23 , Michael Winter wrote:
On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
the downside (other than it's Mac OS X only) is that a small bad patch could
make the entire DVD unreadable;
That's something that's bothered me for years about archives& files in general on computers. If a
1000-word text file has a single "bad spot", you can't read it at all using "normal"
means. In my fevered imagination, I would think any modern computing system& text application should
be able to read the file as best it can, toss up a simple warning and just flag the parts it couldn't read.
Its really a shame they still don't do that.
i think we're talking about two different things; from your description,
the "bad spots" you might have experienced in (presumably unencrypted)
text file are probably places where the disk has an I/O error, which
causes the OS to refuse to work with the file (and sometimes hang);
that's different from corrupted data on a still-readable disk, which i
see as causing an encrypted disk image to fail to mount
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