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From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 13:34
Re not using packet writing software:
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The problems are that the applications writing in packet mode do not
comply
to a 'hard' standard, so you end up with file/directory entries written by
Roxio that are not readable by InCD, or XP.
I've been down that rutted lane and had to find a system with Roxio
installed in order to read the backups, and write them to new media as
sessions in order to read them on a system without Roxio.
A real pain!
...
My wife and her assistant had a need to transfer files of information back
and forth from their software program which had the ability to write to a
drive:\folder only. They used to use floppies, with all the inherent errors,
for years until their files got too big to use a floppy. I then(about 3-4
years ago) got them some CD-RWs and setup each computer to burn and read
using packet mode, I believe using Roxio. This caused all kinds of havoc and
I was continually 'fixing' their drives that would get locked up from the
packet mode software as well as occasionally not being able to read the
disks.
I finally last year convinced them to try the USB thumb drives and bought
them each one. I haven't heard a peep since! They've worked flawlessly now
for almost a year. Her assistant wears one around her neck, leaves hers here
and takes the old one and is on her way. Makes my life easier, too!
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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