AheadNero is driving me nuts. I’m trying to burn a back-up CD of mainly magazine articles and tons of MS Word data files. Nero won’t copy a lot of these files because some folders have more than 8 subdirectories (IOW, eight levels down) or because the file name is more than 256 characters (when I use the default title supplied by the magazine, which I guess is a mistake).
I’ve shortened the file names, but have these questions:
Is there a utility program that will automatically reduce the number of subdirectories I have (IOW, de-stack them.)? I always thought lots of well-organized subdirectories was the hallmark of organization.
I clicked the “Joliet” standard off, which supposedly makes this problem less likely. What is the Joliet and does clicking it off create problems?
Is it better to have more folders inside fewer subdirectories? WHy?
How important is data verification at the end of burning? It takes a long time.
BTW, I just downloaded the newest version of Nero–5.5.7.8.
Why do you need a utility? Just grab the directories from lower down and put them in the root directory that you’re backing up.
Directory structure is neither good nor bad, it’s whatever is easier for you to figure out, and your clients, if that is the case. The deeper you go, though, the harder it usually is to find things.
I haven’t used Nero in a long time, I use Easy CD creator now, but I never use the error checking or testing. Sure, I create a coaster every now and then, but for the time it saves not to check, it’s worth it to me. If you need a high integrity backup, I’d either use the verification or go through and check all of the files manually after the burn.
Maybe you could zip the main directories into zip files. Or maybe the subdirectories into zip files. I think I’d prefer doing that rather than changing all those file names.
Sounds to me like you’re using low-quality CD burning software. I don’t think it is a characteristic of the ISO-9660 format, of which the Joliet is a subset.
Turning Joliet off, btw, leaves you stuck with MS-DOS style 8.3 file and folder names and ALL CAPS at that.
I just launched Toast and dragged the contents of my OS X startup partition into the window. Toast obligingly cranked away and reflected a folder hierarchy at least 9 levels deep, and as soon as I supply it with whatever 9 gig blank CD media my Matsushita CD-RW will recognize :eek: , it’s ready to burn it for me.
Try Roxio Easy CD Creator, that would be Toast ported to the PC if I recall correctly.
I stand corrected.
Of course, many of the other restrictions described for ISO do not apply to Joliet (which eliminates the file name length, ALL CAPS, no spaces, etc, restrictions on file names) but it seems unlikely that Joliet increases the number of folder hierarchical levels.
i have faced similar problems in the past using Easy CD Creator 4. I zip the root directory into one big 650MB ( or whatever size ) zip file and add winzip to the cd incase the comp i need to use the files on does not have winzip or similar unzipping software. You could also create a self-extracting .exe to make it easier to unzip on the target comp. or use WinRAR to span it incase the total file size exceeds that of a single writeable CD.