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[I.Mokay]

I like to make almost all of my discs read only (Show Details -> Record Methods -> Read Only Disc), and the program used to ask me if I wanted to save these settings as my default. I now wished I had clicked yes on that stupid popup box as I am archiving about 200 gigs of data to dvd and have to make sure the box is checked for every disc. I have searched through the options but cannot find a way to make the box checked by default. Please tell me how. I wouldn't even mind having to dig into the registry to change a value.

[grandpabruce]

I like to make almost all of my discs read only (Show Details -> Record Methods -> Read Only Disc), and the program used to ask me if I wanted to save these settings as my default. I now wished I had clicked yes on that stupid popup box as I am archiving about 200 gigs of data to dvd and have to make sure the box is checked for every disc. I have searched through the options but cannot find a way to make the box checked by default. Please tell me how. I wouldn't even mind having to dig into the registry to change a value.

I am not sure why it wouldn't do it, but you are begging trouble, if you are spanning those discs.

If the data that you are archiving, is important, you are far better off getting an external hard drive and backing up the data to it.

[lynn98109]

I am assuming grandpabruce is correct, and I may be wrong about that.

Having read many posts by people who used disc spanning, I have noticed how frantic most of them are to get their data back.  It seems to me people who have lost DVDs full of data are more frantic than people who have lost CDs worth of data.

I have also seen frantic posts by people who have a bad disc somewhere in the set, and can't open anything beyond that.  In some cases, the bad disc is the first disc.

If you do a search for 'retrieve' in google, using "retrieve site:http://forums.support.roxio.com" (to limit it to this site - the search function doesn't work as well as it might - leave off the quotes), you will get a lot of hits so you can read the experience of some of these people.

Some can get back most of it using a recovery program, but any file that is split between two discs (the file doing the spanning) can't be recovered.

You can go ahead and prove this for yourself, or follow grandpabruce's advice and use an External Hard Drive.  Or, if there is a way to break the data into DVD-sized chunks, you can go that way.  It's always good to have multiple backups, preferrably stored separately.

Lynn

Edited by lynn98109, 20 September 2008 - 01:53 PM.

[I.Mokay]

I am NOT doing disc spanning. I am archiving several hundred near gigabyte sized files to disc. I can generally fit 3 to 6 of these files on one disc. On the incredibly rare occasion that I find it not necessary to close a disc, I should be able to remember how to uncheck the box.  Sorry if I didn't make myself clear in the first post, but I'm not a big fan of disc spanning.  Every time I put a blank in the drive, the box unchecks.  I'm using Taiyo Yuden DVDs and making 2 backups to ensure my data is safe.  I just really hate checking that box.

Edited by I.Mokay, 20 September 2008 - 03:12 PM.

[Brendon]

To address your question, I don't think there is a way to make "Read only disc" a default.

I've been sifting carefully through my 7.x [I do run the software] and I can't find a way to do what you want. The box is always unchecked when I get there in a new data project.



This clip from the Help system says the option is selected by default "for certain types of projects". I think it indicates that they didn't intend for it to be a default for all the "other" types, and would explain why I can't find a way to make it so.

Regards,
Brendon

[I.Mokay]

Thanks Brendon.

I just recall it used to give me a little popup when I would change any setting in the Details menu asking if I wanted to make it default.  Perhaps that was another program or one of the other burning options (music cd or copy dvd).  I guess I'll have to live with it for now- well, at least when my new drive comes in.  This burner just made a horrible noise a few minutes ago and won't open.  Never can find a paperclip when you need one.

If anyone finds a way around it, please don't keep it to yourself!

EDIT: Fixed my drive!  One of those little plastic washers that some people use to separate dvds on a spindle somehow made it into the drive.  Removed it and everything is toasty!

Edited by I.Mokay, 20 September 2008 - 03:44 PM.

[gi7omy]

Nearly as bad as one I had for repair - it wasn't the plastic spacer but a CD had slid back and lodged behind the tray

Or another that I had a call out for with a 'CD stuck in drive' - got there, found an ancient 386 with a 5 1/4" floppy drive (with a CD jammed in it)