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Re: Is it me?

Hi Mike,
Generally people use CD's to hold ISO images, which are a pre-defined generic format which tend to work cross platform, although (from memory) it is possible to use CD as block devices, the result of which won't necessarily behave as you expect. 

So when you write to the CD, are you literally copying files to the CD folder, or, are you telling it to burn an ISO image of a folder containing the files you wish to copy?

(my expectation is that the latter will do what you expect, and the former may ...
Hi Mike,
Generally people use CD's to hold ISO images, which are a pre-defined generic format which tend to work cross platform, although (from memory) it is possible to use CD as block devices, the result of which won't necessarily behave as you expect. 

So when you write to the CD, are you literally copying files to the CD folder, or, are you telling it to burn an ISO image of a folder containing the files you wish to copy?

(my expectation is that the latter will do what you expect, and the former may ...

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