Re: Lost & Found files mystery.

From: Ron Sommer (rsommer_at_nospam.ktis.net)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:33:59 -0500

I don't believe the operating system makes a difference.
The older CD burning software has a limit on file length. (100 characters?)
What is the used space on each CD? 

-- 
Ron Sommer
"Vince" <willgivewhenneeded@ok.com> wrote in message
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> Ok all. I have a nice supprise for once. Maybe someone can tell me if my
> assumed answer to the following is correct.
>
> I has a windows 98se machine. I backed up my hard drive on a cdrw (now net
> card in it), I then used windiff from the 98 cd to compare the cd and d
> drive. I found that one of the folders was too deep to be captured on my
cd.
> So I thought. The folder was there but no files. I have seen this before
due
> to depth. So what I did was move the offending folder up one level created
> another cd. Compared that one to the d drive and it matched as expected.
> Then compared to the other cd and found it indeed had the files the other
> did not have.
>
> Now the mystery. When I used windiff on my winxp pro machine and compared
> the 2 cd's again (don't know why just did) I found both the cd's had all
the
> files. of course one folder was out of place but never the less all files
on
> both.
>
> Here is what I think is the reason if someone can confirm it.
>
> The cd software was smart enough to copy all the files to the cd disc
> itself. However windows 98 could not read them from the cd due to the
depth.
> Windows xp on the other hand appears to be able to read a cd deeper. Are
> these the correct facts, if not what happened here?
>
> Thanks
> Vince
>
>

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