Vanished File
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ok, i think i might be seeing the light here.
You are backing to DVDRW drive. Do you have some software that makes DVDRW drive accessible without burning files to it? From script, you did not use burn function, rather used D: drive as regular drive?
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I must have been using D: drive as a regular drive.
I haven’t been using the burn function as I assumed I didn’t have the Pro version. I have just discovered that I can use the burn function. At the moment I am formatting a new DVD-RW as the backup to the old DVD wouldn’t proceed after I ticked the burn box.
I am using Version 11.00.52. About doesn’t indicate that this is a beta version.
I will report back when I have formatted the DVD and amended the scripts to burn to it.
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I must have been using D: drive as a regular drive.
I haven’t been using the burn function as I assumed I didn’t have the Pro version. I have just discovered that I can use the burn function. At the moment I am formatting a new DVD-RW as the backup to the old DVD wouldn’t proceed after I ticked the burn box.
I am using Version 11.00.52. About doesn’t indicate that this is a beta version.
I will report back when I have formatted the DVD and amended the scripts to burn to it.
wait, but how did you get all those files to D: drive? You must have had some kind of burning software installed that did it? Even if transparently?
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I have Nero installed which I use for burning CDs. I have never ticked the burn box but the backups have always appeared on the DVD.
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there is an reason that I am asking - if there was some software burning to D: drive, there are some transparent utilities that make your DVDRW act as normal drive (not really, but they try).
In this case, if backup was originally burned somehow, you might be able to recover it by using Copy DVD to ISO feature from main PA window.
I am not sure how much do you know about how DVDR/RW drives work.
Basically every time burner writes something to the drive, it writes an “session”. Your Windows Explorer reads only last session. So each time new data is written, everything thats on the disc has to be written again or it will be lost - it is called importing session.
Reason I mention that is while Windows Explorer can read only last session, Copy DVD to ISO tool will give you an list of sessions/tracks to create ISO files from, including all of them, and you might be able to find your lost file in one of those sessions. Hopefully that works.
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I have Nero installed which I use for burning CDs. I have never ticked the burn box but the backups have always appeared on the DVD.
Nero has such software drive that makes writing to DVD’s transparent. As you can see, it is not perfect :).
Hopefully you will be able to recover data by using tool I mentioned.
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After formatting a new DVD-RW I checked the Burn to CD/DVD/Blue-Ray box and pressed next. I was then informed that Directory of drive destination does not exist.
If Nero or something else is allowing me to burn the backup to the DVD, do I need to check the Burn to CD/DVD box? PowerAchiever Version 7 worked without any problems at all (incidentally, I must be using the Beta 4 version of PA 2009 as that is the only version of 2009 available.
Is there any point in my uninstalling PA 2009 and re-installing it? As it is I keep gettin prompted to register it despite the fact that I have entered the new licence details several times.
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I have done as you suggested and copied the DVD to ISO. I now have an enormous ISO file. How do I open it to see whether it contains my missing file?
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After formatting a new DVD-RW I checked the Burn to CD/DVD/Blue-Ray box and pressed next. I was then informed that Directory of drive destination does not exist.
If Nero or something else is allowing me to burn the backup to the DVD, do I need to check the Burn to CD/DVD box? PowerAchiever Version 7 worked without any problems at all (incidentally, I must be using the Beta 4 version of PA 2009 as that is the only version of 2009 available.
Is there any point in my uninstalling PA 2009 and re-installing it? As it is I keep gettin prompted to register it despite the fact that I have entered the new licence details several times.
your problem is from Nero that somehow screwed up burning of the files. Problably some bug after burning a lot of sessions. I am not sure. In any case, it did not work somehow.
If you want to use PA Burner to burn those files, you need to have PRO version and check Burning box (uncheck D: drive as well).
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I have done as you suggested and copied the DVD to ISO. I now have an enormous ISO file. How do I open it to see whether it contains my missing file?
what track did you save to iso? did you have choice of several tracks? Try opening it with PA and see what you get inside.
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ah, it is not Nero - Vista have similar feature - if you format new DVDRW to support its Live FS, it will make your DVDRW behave like an hard disk (which it isnt)… it probably did not like that you were updating same file over and over as that does not work narutally on disc based media…
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Can I use a new DVD-RW in PA without formatting it with Vista?
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I have posted a query on a couple of sites asking how I can go about uninstalling or disabling Windows Live FS.
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A further development. I planned to do some work on my DVD Slideshow (using Nero Express Vision). When I tried to open the project file from my hard drive it had vanished! Fortunately I was able to extract it from one of my backup disks.
I suspect that, in the case of the other missing file, it may have already disappeared from the hard drive so that when I ran the backup script the file was not there to backup. HOWEVER… Backing up the whole TRAVEL DIARY folder incrementally wouldn’t delete the file already existing on the backup disk, would it?
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A further development. I planned to do some work on my DVD Slideshow (using Nero Express Vision). When I tried to open the project file from my hard drive it had vanished! Fortunately I was able to extract it from one of my backup disks.
I suspect that, in the case of the other missing file, it may have already disappeared from the hard drive so that when I ran the backup script the file was not there to backup. HOWEVER… Backing up the whole TRAVEL DIARY folder incrementally wouldn’t delete the file already existing on the backup disk, would it?
nope, there is no option in the backup that deletes the files, even if you wanted to.
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I uninstalled all Windows Live programs then conducted a test in which I created a file (test.docx) using Word 2007 and saved it in the TRAVEL DIARY folder. I then checked Computer to make sure it was, indeed, saved. I then ran the backup script which saved the compressed test.docx to the DVD-RW. I then checked Computer again and the file was no longer there.
I guess the next step is to use a new DVD-RW which has not been formatted, though I suspect that I will be asked to format it.
Incidentally, my trial version of PA 2009 runs out tomorrow, which is a nuisance as I have tried to register it a number of times using the new licence number.
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Further news. I have just discovered that my CD/Record database has also vanished from my hard drive. This is really bad news as it contains about a thousand records.
I had hoped that I could extract the records database from my backup DVD, but since I uninstalled all Windows Live programs I can no longer access the DVD. This wouldn’t matter if it weren’t for the records database as I find that I can burn the backups to DVD via PowerArchiver as you suggested. I might have to re-install all the Windows Live programs (which might give me access to my backup disk), extract the Records folder, then delete them again.
Any suggestions?
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If your running Vista Business and need to recover files that were deleted/removed from a drive, you could use the Previous versions feature. This is provided that System Protection is enabled on the drive where the file(s) were located.
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I uninstalled all Windows Live programs then conducted a test in which I created a file (test.docx) using Word 2007 and saved it in the TRAVEL DIARY folder. I then checked Computer to make sure it was, indeed, saved. I then ran the backup script which saved the compressed test.docx to the DVD-RW. I then checked Computer again and the file was no longer there.
I guess the next step is to use a new DVD-RW which has not been formatted, though I suspect that I will be asked to format it.
Incidentally, my trial version of PA 2009 runs out tomorrow, which is a nuisance as I have tried to register it a number of times using the new licence number.
you need to email us for the issue with reg number, via support form
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I uninstalled all Windows Live programs then conducted a test in which I created a file (test.docx) using Word 2007 and saved it in the TRAVEL DIARY folder. I then checked Computer to make sure it was, indeed, saved. I then ran the backup script which saved the compressed test.docx to the DVD-RW. I then checked Computer again and the file was no longer there.
I guess the next step is to use a new DVD-RW which has not been formatted, though I suspect that I will be asked to format it.
Incidentally, my trial version of PA 2009 runs out tomorrow, which is a nuisance as I have tried to register it a number of times using the new licence number.
you did not have to uninstall Live programs.
Save backups to some local folder on C:… what happens then?
