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6. Recovering CD/DVD/BD Data |
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7. Additional features |
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8. FAQs |
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9. Customer Support |
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Annex A Controls and dialog boxes |
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A.4. Preferences |
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6.3.
Searching the lost UDF files on CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R
disks
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correct reading of UDF files and folders on write-once media
(CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+R DL) is provided by Virtual Allocation Table
(VAT). Each time, when you add, change or delete files on the disc,
UDF mastering program creates a new VAT that reflects a new state
of your disk. A new VAT is being placed on the disk physically,
when you eject the disk from your computer drive. VAT's location is
crucial for the disks created with the help of drag & drop
software, such as well-known Roxio (Adaptec) DirectCD and
Drag-To-Disc. If the VAT can not be found or is corrupted, files
will be missing.
If your CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+R DL is
recognized as UDF one, but when you try to open the disk, you
get the error message about unreadable root folder - this
means the last VAT is not found. Also, if you have accidently
deleted some files, a new VAT does not point to them. To
recover the deleted files, you should use the previous VATs.
There are two main ways to find the lost files:
1. Using Scan UDF Disc from
the Tools menu.
2. Searching an old VATs in order to recover the files from the
previous backups.
The first method is described in the section 6.4. To search all
VATs, please do the following:
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Click
the Preferences button in the Tool Bar or select the same option
from the View menu. Check the 'Search of all VATs' box on the UDF
Reader tab in the Preferences dialog. Click the OK button to close
the Preferences.
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Click
the Refresh button in the Tool Bar. After a while the program will
display a progress dialog similar to the one shown here:
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when
the process is completed, you should see the confirmation message:
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Click
the OK button. Now, an each backup is shown as a separate
"session" in the program window. When you will see a new disk
image (icon) in the program window, please use built-in Session Selector (see the section
6.2) for access to all backups.
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Note. Please do not search all VATs on the following
disks:
- CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW (CD/DVD re-writable media),
- DVD-R and DVD+R created by DVD personal recorder (standalone
device) and DVD camcorder.
These disks do not contain VAT at all.
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