Re: Nero alarming behaviour
- From: "Roy G" <royboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:45:00 GMT
<karlengel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not trusting hard drives, I burn my digital photos to DVD+R as soon as
they're on my computer, and back up that DVD monthly. I usually don't
keep the shots on my hard drive after burning them.
Upon opening Nero EXpress (6.3.1.25) in preparation for a backup burn,
and before adding any new photos to the layout, it said that 3
folders/files had been replaced. In my experience Nero does this
automatically when files from the same source folder with the same name
as ones on the target disk have changed, which makes doing backups
quick - but I'm always afraid that if I happened to give a new photo
the same name as one already on the disk it will be automatically
replaced unless I'm careful. So I scrolled to see which files were
being replaced, and discovered something odd. Nero was ready to
replace three photos, each around 1.5MB, with versions I had emailed to
people, about 65KB in size.
Now my email program is on a different computer, since (for security
reasons) my main computer isn't net-connected. When I want to create
email versions of photos I usually right-click on the image, choose
Send to>Mail Recipient, and transfer the smaller images from my desktop
to my email computer via drag 'n' drop formatted CD-R/DVD+R, then
delete them from the first computer if I haven't done a direct
(Shift+Drag) transfer to the disk.
These new "replacement" email-sized photo files in the Nero layout
certainly weren't in the source folder, so I did a search to find where
on the computer Nero had found them. The search turned up NOTHING. In
fact the full-sized versions were still in the Recycle Bin, but no sign
of the email versions on any partition or connected drive. I assume if
I hadn't looked closely and had just carried on and added my new photos
to the layout before burning, I would have lost the original high-res
versions of these three files from my backup.
I checked I had the full-res versions on my main photos DVD, and
transferred them to my Desktop, in preparation for an experiment: to do
the burn and see if Nero really did "lose" the originals from the disc,
which I could add again later. But opening Nero again, it no longer
replaced the three files. I moved the three "safety" files off my
Desktop and onto removable media (which I removed) and opened Nero
again, but still no file replacing.
So now I not only can't work out where it was getting the replacement
files from, but can't repeat it, so it has me baffled - and alarmed
because of how easily I could have lost the originals from my backup
disk.
Hi.
There are always chances of us doing something stupid, and completely
messing up what we started out to do.
A couple of thoughts.
Continue to burn your images to Cd or DVD as soon as you get them onto the
computer.
Do NOT Delete them until you have sufficient to completely fill a blank DVD
or CD. Then select and Burn them onto 2 different makes of CD or DVD, and
"Close" the Media.
( 1 Burning only, and no re-burning, which can give rise to the sort of
problem you describe.)
So you should now have 3 copies of every image on removable media. The bits
and pieces ones could be dumped.
Keep one of the "Full" media someplace else, in a different building, or
even your car (provided it is never kept within the main structure of your
house). This is your "Fall Back" Back - Up. Check it and re-record every
couple of years, but do not use it otherwise.
The other Full ones are your "everyday" Back -Ups for when you accidentally
delete something by mistake or for when your hard drive fails. Again check
and re-record every couple of years.
Hard Drives & Removable Hard Drives are so cheap nowadays, that you should
be able to keep all your image files on them, and only use the Cds or DVDs
for Back Up purposes.
A removable HDD would give you another set of Back Up Files.
Roy G
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