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XP burned the CD and Snow Leopard won't read it
Jed Strahm, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 9:44 PM on 07.12.10 |
->> I'm helping a fellow photographer out, he has a boatload of photo CD's that were burned using XP and his Snow Leopard won't read them, they don't even come up in the finder. Does anyone have any ideas here? Thanks in advance guys and gals.
-Jed in AZ |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Northwest Missouri | MO | USA | Posted: 10:42 PM on 07.12.10 |
| ->> This could actually be a problem based on the hardware moreso than the OS. I had problems with disks burned in a Samsung drive. They couldn't be read by any laptop drive. Pretty much all laptop drives are mfg. by the same company regardless of the machine the inhabit. I changed burners as a result. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 12:44 AM on 07.13.10 |
->> Find a machine that will read them and use it to transfer the files to an external hard drive.
--Mark |
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Jed Strahm, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 12:55 AM on 07.13.10 |
| ->> Thanks Darren and Mark for responses. I was hoping for a quick tip from the mac crowd, both he and I are recent converts and have been learning together. We both searched the forums and all Google had to offer and came up short. Do you think opening in "show hidden system files / folders" mode will make a difference? |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 12:59 AM on 07.14.10 |
| ->> fastest way to know is to try it. |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington/Normal | IL | United States | Posted: 9:21 AM on 07.14.10 |
| ->> Years ago if you didn't burn a CD with a format of ISO9660, it couldn't be read on a MAC if burned by a Windows machine. I'm not completely sure that is true today, but if they are older media burns it might be playing into the equation. |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Northwest Missouri | MO | USA | Posted: 9:37 AM on 07.14.10 |
| ->> If you have your Windows machines still around, put the disk in them and then turn on Windows File Sharing on your Mac under system preferences. Then login into one machine or the other and transfer them over the network. Using the local IP address is the easiest way I know of to login in between the two systems. |
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Svein Ove Ekornesvaag, Photographer
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Aalesund | Møre og Romsdal | Norway | Posted: 10:31 AM on 07.14.10 |
| ->> The first thing I think of is that the discs aren't finalized, wich has nothing to do with Windows/Mac issues. If they're not finalized then many computers will have problem reading them. |
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Jed Strahm, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 12:36 AM on 07.22.10 |
| ->> Thanks all for the responses. I have been away from a computer for the past few days. Darren, I think your suggestion may be the best bet, I'll see if we can get that to work. |
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