Help! Getting a Mac to read a "Drag and Drop" PC DVD?

[Mark Fleming]

Using "Drag to disk" I created a DVD of a folder and files within it on a PC (XP). I needed a Mac to read it, yet it cannot. It could "see" the files, but the files were smaller than they should have been and there were opening errors.

 

I posted this question in another forum here and they said that the problem is that we used Drag and Drop and not the standard DVD burning program, nad it created something like a "UDF format".

 

First of all, is that the problem?

 

But also:

 

The person has the DVD still and it's 100 miles away. Rather than me driving down there with a new DVD, is there something he can download so that he can actually upload those files to his Mac? Are these UDF files compatible between PC and Mac if they have the right software? Is Creator 6 for the Mac available for free somewhere?

[ogdens]

Using "Drag to disk" I created a DVD of a folder and files within it on a PC (XP). I needed a Mac to read it, yet it cannot. It could "see" the files, but the files were smaller than they should have been and there were opening errors.

 

I posted this question in another forum here and they said that the problem is that we used Drag and Drop and not the standard DVD burning program, nad it created something like a "UDF format".

 

First of all, is that the problem?

 

But also:

 

The person has the DVD still and it's 100 miles away. Rather than me driving down there with a new DVD, is there something he can download so that he can actually upload those files to his Mac? Are these UDF files compatible between PC and Mac if they have the right software? Is Creator 6 for the Mac available for free somewhere?

 

Read the following: http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...&hl=ISO9660

[Mark Fleming]

Read the following: http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...&hl=ISO9660

 

and http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...&hl=ISO9660

Thank you very much for your research.

 

What's interesting is they seem to contradict each other. One says to go UDF and tghe other ISO9660. I had read that Mac cannot read UDF.

[Mark Fleming]

I'm also looking at my Nero program to see it's options. I see under preferences I can:

 

1) check yes or no to "check Joliet file names before burning"

 

2) I can check ISO9660 only, ISO9660+Joliet or ISO 1999.

 

3) If ISO, I can allow either max caracters of 11 or 31

 

Man, this is nuts. Any ideas?

[ogdens]

I'm also looking at my Nero program to see it's options. I see under preferences I can:

 

1) check yes or no to "check Joliet file names before burning"

 

2) I can check ISO9660 only, ISO9660+Joliet or ISO 1999.

 

3) If ISO, I can allow either max caracters of 11 or 31

 

Man, this is nuts. Any ideas?

 

Sorry about the confusion with the url's I sent, re -read my post again I deleted the bad one.

[james_hardin]

I am not perfectly clear on MAC's but the OS is very important as to what they can read! The newer OS-X should be able to read UDF, Joliet and ISO9660. As to the older MAC OS's, not so sure…

 

If a MAC can play a DVD Movie it can read UDF as all DVD Movies are using the UDF file system on the discs!!!

 

Packet Writing uses the UDF file system but it is the packet writing method that is causing the problem, not the UDF. The two terms are not interchangeable.

 

Older MAC OS's could not read Joliet, so I suspect that if a Joliet Bridge were selected it would assure that the disc would be unreadable to an older MAC.

 

You really need to find out what OS your MAC user has and then try Classic in both Joliet and UDF, No Bridge and see what happens.

 

Please let us know so we can stop guessing.