Re: cd copying disaster

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Perhaps, however it is extremely difficult for me to disagree with her
statement. The post she refers to is extremely hard to read and comprehend.
Gene K
"Mark" <xpmark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Miss Perspicacia Tick should look up "run on sentence".
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Howie wrote:
> Hi There,I wonder if you can help me?
> I took a load of pictures of my nipper's school sports day on my
> digital camera and decided to burn them direct from the camera to a
> CD so she could subsequently show them to her friends on this and her
> friends computers. I duly plugged in the camera (which showed up as
> an external drive) and dragged and dropped the files to the CD drive
> icon using windows explorerer (I use Windows XP - Home Edition). The
> files were duly transfered to the CD in 'shadow format' and i clicked
> on the "write these files to CD" icon. All went well and as usual, i
> noticed that at the end of the burning process when prompted to press
> the 'finish' button on the Wizard all the shadow files automatically
> disappeared! (A friend has told me that they are automatically
> deleted by the Wizard and do not go via the Recycle Bin - Is that
> correct?) Well the CD was a peach and i therefore deleted all the
> files from the camera. NEXT?.... Yes you guessed it, about a month
> later she lost the CD on the way to school!! So i have tried to find
> the files that were created on the computer during the burning
> process because the original camera files have gone (i use it
> extensively and on a daily basis for work) and I have discovered that
> they were temorarily stored in a hidden file called "CD burning".
> This folder is however empty. During the interim period I have burned
> 3 or 4 further CDs with loads of data for my wife's MSc studies using
> the same technique and the computer has been re-booted every day
> since the original sports day copying. Someone told me that once the
> files were automatically deleted at the end of the burning process
> that the area they had occupied was subsequently made available for
> new files and that because of the volume of work then undertaken the
> likelyhood is that they have all been overwritten and are therefore
> gone forever!!... What do you think? Additionally as part of my
> routine system Maintainance i have de-fragged, Optimized and deleted
> temporary files at least 3 times since the initial copy. My question
> is this?.... Do i have a hope in hell of
> retrieving/rescueing/restoring these pictures? I would be prepared to
> pay for a specialist company to do some sort of professional
> retrieval if its possible as my daughter is now very sad. Or do i
> wait till next years sports Day and save a copy just in case......
> Thank you for your time
> regards Howard

May I suggest you avail yourself of the nearest dictionary and look up
'paragraph' and, when you have learnt what they are, utilise them the next
time you post - a huge block of text like that is nigh on impossible to
read
and I'm afraid that I, and many others, will simply pass over things that
we
cannot scan in about 5 seconds.

It really is in your own best interests.


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In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/



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