items deleted from a CD

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BonnieG1 (Nebraska)
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Before our annual meeting in February of this year,I took a day of work because the proxies that I had sent to a CD somehow got delete I had to do all the work over.
I am currently having trouble with other items unrelated to Board work being deleted from the CD that I scanned them do.

As I do scan association business to cds, I would like to know if any ofyou may know what could cause my work to be deletd from a cd? Thanks.

SteveM9 (Massachusetts)
Posts: 3,699

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Cds go bad all the time. They are cheap and sometimes go bad.

JayP3 (Florida)
Posts: 154

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What is the type of disc you are using?

Are you using CD-RW media?

MelissaP1 (Alabama)
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Are you verifying on another computer you can see the items on the CD? Sounds like a copying or reading problem off your CD. Which is not unusual. The formatting could be set up wrong and making it non-readable on other's computers. I would examine my CD recording settings.

A magnet can sometimes remove things from CD as well. So be careful where you store the CD. If your mailing it, make sure to use approved packaging for CD's. Mail can be exposed to different examinations that can effect CD data. There are many reasons why a CD can get erased.

My suggestion: Get a thumb drive. They can get infected and spread viruss so be careful to do a virus scan on the information through virus software. However, they are pretty safe and can store much more information.

Former HOA President

JohnC46 (South Carolina)
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CD drives.....how 1990ish......LOL

Use thumb drives for portability.

BruceF1 (Connecticut)
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Posted By MelissaP1 on 08/18/2012 4:34 AM
A magnet can sometimes remove things from CD as well.

CDs are written to and read from by lasers. The digital data are stored optically. The data are not stored magnetically. Magnetic storage was used with the old floppy disks.

However, scratches, fingerprints, sun damage, heat, etc., can all affect the optical characteristics of the CD and cause portions to become unreadable. Also, dirt and dust in the CD reader can cause some portions of the CD to become unreadable. Try using a CD cleaning disk and/or a different disk reader. You can also try cleaning the CD surface with a good quality disk cleaner.

TimB4 (Tennessee)
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Bonnie,

Not knowing what program you are using to write to the CD, I'll offer the following:

if the CD isn't finalized it will not be readable on all computers.

some programs will que the items to be burned to the CD but require an extra step to actually save/burn the cd.

If the scanning program doesn't alter the name when saving the image, the previous image with the same name will be overwritten.

Hope this helps.

Personally, I save things to a thumb drive and then burn the cd for a backup of the thumb drive.

JohnC46 (South Carolina)
Posts: 14,265

Posted:

Bonnie

As Tim said:

some programs will que the items to be burned to the CD but require an extra step to actually save/burn the cd.

Very common mistake.

Hope this helps.

BonnieG1 (Nebraska)
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Posted By JayP3 on 08/18/2012 4:23 AM
What is the type of disc you are using?

Are you using CD-RW media?

I am using a Maxell CD-R disc on the items I don't plan on changing.
I am using a Maxell CD-RW disc on items I need to change after scanning to the disc.

BruceF1 (Connecticut)
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Posted By BonnieG1 on 08/18/2012 7:02 AM

Posted By JayP3 on 08/18/2012 4:23 AM
What is the type of disc you are using?

Are you using CD-RW media?

I am using a Maxell CD-R disc on the items I don't plan on changing.
I am using a Maxell CD-RW disc on items I need to change after scanning to the disc.

If you don't want to use a flash (thumb) drive, burn two CDs. Back before there were flash drives, I always made two copies (2 CDs) just in case one failed. I still do that today if I am saving data to a CD or a DVD.

It's just Murphy's law. If you have only one copy, it will fail. If you make two copies so that you have a backup, neither copy will fail.

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