Marlo Schuldt, publisher of Legacy’s Add-on, Photo Collector and ProMedia Manager Suite, wrote an interesting article about his experiences with caring for and handling CDs. Its headlines include:
- Most of us protect the wrong side of the CD
- One scratch or ding can destroy a CD
- Sunlight can tan your CDs
- Stacking CDs and the Leaning Tower of Pizza
- To label or not to label
- A reusable CD?
- Determing CD quality is about like flipping a coin
Read the complete article at http://photocollector.net/TipCD.htm
Learn more about Photo Collector and ProMedia Manager Suite at http://legacyfamilytree.com/LifeStory.asp
Re-writeable CDs MUST be fully Erased. One cannot do a Quick erase!
Why? Because a Quick erase erases the file structure, the root area only. The rest of the CD remains as it was.
The CD is written to with a laser that melts pockets in a special layer inside the CD. A Full Erasure restores the whole CD to a blank, unwritten layer inside the CD. Example: one cannot write any more to a book or a new book just by replacing the Table of Contents with blank pages.!! {BEP}