[filmscanners] Re: Archiving???!!!

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic@telus.net>]

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.
>
>

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