Got this e-mail recently. It's a good thing to know. Slightly altered to remove all personal info, just because.
I want to take a moment and relate something interesting that happened.
Your photo collection from your trip occupies 9 DVDs. Since I made two copies, that came out to 18 DVDs required for the task. Because I both burned and verified each disk, figure on an average of 30 minutes per disk, partly because I shuttled back & forth between the burning and doing other things. It took me large chunks of two days to finish the job.
I used some Sony DVD-R blank disks, which took me thru Disk 7, Copy #1. At that point I switch over to Staples brand blank disks. [I had accumulated some money in rewards points at Staples and bought the Staples brand because they were on sale.]
Therefore, I started using the Staples disks with Disk 7, Copy #2. Obviously, Copies 1&2 are identical, and I didn't make any changes to the source files before starting the next burn. The burn process failed about half way thru. I tried a second one, just in case the first disk was defective. It failed identically. At that point I went thru every one of the source files (~4.3 GB of pictures) to verify none of them were corrupt, although that really should not have caused the problem. Also, since this particular disk was very close to its maximum capacity, I shuffled the source files to reduce the size slightly. No joy - same problem happened.
At that point I called it quits. Went to Staples the next day and explained the problem. Their customer service people were great, not questioning why I wanted to return the two spools of disks. The exchange took a while because I no longer had the receipt and the credit card had changed. Got the same Sony disks, as before.
Returned home and finished the burning job without any more problems. The lesson: don't buy Staples brand CD or DVD blank disks.
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