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Number   :  4704
Date     :  2003-06-02
Author   :  Virg
Subject  :  Re: Two Questions
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Bernard Robinson  
wrote:

> Recently I wanted to clone a CD-RW to another CD-RW disc
> using XXCOPY. The target CD-RW had been used to back up
> the same folders and when I started the backup. I
> received an error message saying that there was not
> enough room on the target CD-RW for the operation. In
> the source CD-RW many, many files had been deleted, so
> there should have been room for the clone operation.

I had the same experience with cd-rw (TDK 24/10/40, Nero) and I know I had not written nearly enough to it to fill it but Windows said it was full also. And I couldn't view it in order to delete anything. Had to reformat it. I'm dubious about repeatedly backing up to the same cd-rw disk (I'm talking only a few repeats, not hundreds or thousands). It worked for several incremental backups before that happened. I'm wondering if deleting files on cd-rw actually frees space. The few tests I've tried since seem to show that it does but I haven't much faith in cd-rw any more. Could use them like cd-r, I suppose and only back up to them once.

Virg


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