help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid -ACID Product Family

Subject:help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid Posted by: mactra Date:9/3/2002 11:22:20 AM Has anyone else had trouble saving directly to a CD-R formatted with Adaptec's Direct CD (you know, the program that makes a CD-R work like an extra hard drive or floppy)? I'm trying to back up all of my ACID files (with all associated media files)to CD-Rs this way, but i keep getting the error message that this disc is read-only. this is not true. just to doublecheck, i have saved to this disc in microsoft word. anyone understand what's going on?
Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid Reply by: mactra Date:9/3/2002 11:23:07 AM BTW, version is ACID 3. I don't remember having this problem in ACID 2.
Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid Reply by: Mus Date:9/3/2002 12:38:07 PM Personally, I wouldn't trust DirectCD to do anything in particular. I used to use it on CD-RW and had stuff go missing or become unreadable. Regards M
Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid Reply by: mactra Date:9/3/2002 1:14:34 PM Thanks Mus, so that raises the question: how would YOU approach backing up all your ACD projects and associated media to CDR so you can reformat your recording drive? it seems like a simple question, but there are different ways to approach it. what do you do? mack
Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid Reply by: Iacobus Date:9/3/2002 1:33:45 PM Like Mus said, I would not trust DirectCD (or any other packet writing software) with my projects. I would back up all my projects to CD-RW or CD-R using Easy CD Creator or other CD burning software instead. Generally speaking, burning to CD-R will be your best bet for reliability but is more wasteful; burning to CD-RW is less reliable but will be able to be used again. Another alternative is to move or copy your projects to another drive. You can compress them using a utility like WinZip to make the process a little easier. HTH, Iacobus

Subject:help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid

Posted by: mactra

Date:9/3/2002 11:22:20 AM

Has anyone else had trouble saving directly to a CD-R formatted with Adaptec's Direct CD (you know, the program that makes a CD-R work like an extra hard drive or floppy)? I'm trying to back up all of my ACID files (with all associated media files)to CD-Rs this way, but i keep getting the error message that this disc is read-only. this is not true. just to doublecheck, i have saved to this disc in microsoft word. anyone understand what's going on?

Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid

Reply by: mactra

Date:9/3/2002 11:23:07 AM

BTW, version is ACID 3. I don't remember having this problem in ACID 2.

Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid

Reply by: Mus

Date:9/3/2002 12:38:07 PM

Personally, I wouldn't trust DirectCD to do anything in particular.

I used to use it on CD-RW and had stuff go missing or become unreadable.

Regards

M

Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid

Reply by: mactra

Date:9/3/2002 1:14:34 PM

Thanks Mus,

so that raises the question: how would YOU approach backing up all your ACD projects and associated media to CDR so you can reformat your recording drive? it seems like a simple question, but there are different ways to approach it. what do you do?

mack

Subject:RE: help! Adaptec Direct CD and Acid

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:9/3/2002 1:33:45 PM

Like Mus said, I would not trust DirectCD (or any other packet writing software) with my projects.

I would back up all my projects to CD-RW or CD-R using Easy CD Creator or other CD burning software instead.

Generally speaking, burning to CD-R will be your best bet for reliability but is more wasteful; burning to CD-RW is less reliable but will be able to be used again.

Another alternative is to move or copy your projects to another drive. You can compress them using a utility like WinZip to make the process a little easier.

HTH,
Iacobus