Hi, I think I have a problem that is related to unicode translation. I have some files with filenames saved in unicode with special characters. This is fine as I can open it. The problem began when I had to reconfigure my computer system and backed up all my files. To do this, I backed it up to a read-only CDROM. So far so good (but big mistake).
However, I guess my CD burning software does not support unicode or does not recognize the files with unicode characters in the filename and does not warn of this. Thus, when it wrote to the CD, it converted some file names to something like MY??FILE.doc. Because the filename was automatically converted with "?" characters, it is considered and invalid file name and I can't open this. Reading the Microsoft knowledge base, I found that to bypass this problem I must change the name to something in regular ASCII. Problem is, the file is now "read-only" in the CD. I can't even copy it back to the hard drive to change the name because it gives me an error message. The CD is my only source for the original files. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might be able to salvage these files? I've tried to save it to other media too (like flash memory cards) but it still did work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Nick
