Thanks Mike, that's very good to know about. I could see it becoming "handy" if current experience with CD-Rs is any hint of the future.
Art Mike Kersenbrock wrote: > Arthur Entlich wrote: > > >>And even if a neg was to get scratched or damaged, that is repairable. >>However, a slight scratch on a CD may make it completely unreadable. > > > Note that there are software utilities for reading CD's that have > errors to extract the files anyway. One I've seen (can if config'd) > ask you (over and over again) if you want to try and re-read the > data-block (within the file) that errored. Ad-infinitum. Even if > an error persists, you can still extract files with those errors > in them, so one may still have a photo but with a blotch in the > file (like a scratch, with severity depending on data format, > error location, error size, etc). > > Of course if the scratch is in the most inappropriate spot of the > CD, things could get harder.... I suspect. :-) > > Mike K. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
