Hi - I'm trying to use Creator Basic 9 to back up some large directories to DVD. It consistently gets what appears to be about 80% of the way through (based on the different colour of the disk when it's been written to) then fails with an error. The error doesn't seem to have any useful information attached to it - it just says please insert a new blank disk and try again.
This is a large directory tree of about 4.1GB. It has some files and directories whose names begin with dot in it (.htaccess .svn etc.). When I compared the files that had been written to the disk with the source directory it appeared that files and directories starting with dot had not been written.
So then I created a zip file of the whole directory tree, and tried backing this up (a single file of about 3.9GB). This seemed to stop with the same error in about the same place. This surely can't be to do with the dots?
I suspect it's not a Roxio problem, because Nero stops with a similar error in a similar place. But I can't get to the bottom of it, and until I can I can't create any more space on my hard drive which is nearly full.
Can you suggest what may be causing the problem, or waht I can try next?
I'm running on an HP Compaq 6710b notebook with Windows 7 Pro.
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RowanB
Hi - I'm trying to use Creator Basic 9 to back up some large directories to DVD. It consistently gets what appears to be about 80% of the way through (based on the different colour of the disk when it's been written to) then fails with an error. The error doesn't seem to have any useful information attached to it - it just says please insert a new blank disk and try again.
This is a large directory tree of about 4.1GB. It has some files and directories whose names begin with dot in it (.htaccess .svn etc.). When I compared the files that had been written to the disk with the source directory it appeared that files and directories starting with dot had not been written.
So then I created a zip file of the whole directory tree, and tried backing this up (a single file of about 3.9GB). This seemed to stop with the same error in about the same place. This surely can't be to do with the dots?
I suspect it's not a Roxio problem, because Nero stops with a similar error in a similar place. But I can't get to the bottom of it, and until I can I can't create any more space on my hard drive which is nearly full.
Can you suggest what may be causing the problem, or waht I can try next?
I'm running on an HP Compaq 6710b notebook with Windows 7 Pro.
Thanks - Rowan
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