Anthony Farr wrote:
IOW I'm speaking from personal experience and investigation.
When I refer to "Drag and drop" compilations, I refer to dragging files onto
the Drive's icon, or into the opened folder of the drive, and letting the OS
take care of the writing method. I never do that these days (I always open
the drive's GUI)and I attribute my good record of disk non-corruption to
that precaution.
The problem still existed pretty recently, and may be a problem today,
but I'm not sure. It's not about the actual writing to the media,
though. The problem is when you create a "session" of files on the
device and don't "finalize" or "close" the session. At least in the
past, the protocol of which data got written where could (and did) vary
from burning software to burning software. Some sessions that weren't
closed could be read on some machines but not on others.
When you're creating the disk, especially via the drag-n-drop method, a
lot of different burning software required you to explicitly check a
checkbox or something to request that it "finalize" or "close" the
session when it was done. If you didn't know, or forgot, your media
might not be readable on other computers.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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