POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Recovery of pictures from old CD : Multisession Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:26:39 EDT (-0400)
  Multisession  
From: TC
Date: 15 Aug 2009 02:02:52
Message: <4a864f8c$1@news.povray.org>
You can add new sessions to a CD provided

- you created the cd in "multisession mode"
- you did not have your cd-burner "finalize" the cd which prevents ordinary 
programs from adding additional sessions.

If you used a CD-R (not a CD-RW) the data IS still on the disk. On a CD-R 
data cannot be overwritten, it is always appended. That's the point of 
having a CD-R, the data written to it can not be deleted.

BTW: in our country it is cheaper to back up data on an external HDD than on 
CD. A 1400 GB external HDD costs about 89 EUR without VAT. You would have to 
buy 2200 CD's to store the same amount of data ;-), so HDD is cheaper, 

of storage space... the same as 570 bottles of wine.


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