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Originally Posted by Rubenandres77
Exactly.
never throw away your burned CDs,".
Is better to play safe and have multiple copies of your important files. It may be time-consuming to keep all synchronized, but once a file is lost or damaged you'll never regret to have spent some minutes making security copies of it.
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another invaluable tool is the Cathy directory lister:
Cathy - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com
what Cathy does is it make a directory tree listing on ANY disk and stores it. So when you burn a CD or DVD, you properly number them YYMMDD-HHMM.
Before putting the disk is some storage box or where ever, you run the disk through Cathy and this way Cathy records the directory tree and all the files that are on that disk. Cathy then allows you to search ALL of the disks that it has cataloged at once for a file. this way you don't have to keep popping in and out disks/cds/usb sticks, hard drives, whatever to find a file.
here are some screenshots, the first is the tab to add a disk to cathy and the second is a search of every backup I have ever made in the last 15 years of every CD/DVD/Hard drive I have ever had for a file that has "lunar...lander" anywhere in its file name