Where is my "lost file"?

[george]

I attempted to copy (on a G4 mirrored doors) a disk  and when I reached the  stage where I was prompted to insert a blank disk I did so only to receive the message " the disk you have inserted has a capacity of 4.7gb's........the required disk size should be 9.9gb's (which I do not have).
I am left with recorded material on my HDD and I do not know what it is called or where to find it.
Where does Toast Titanium 5.1 store this type of file?
George.

[gapstr]

I don't know, but have you tried searching your hard drive(s) by file size? Press Apple-F, when the Find window comes up click the Add criteria... button, and search for all files greater than 4700000 KB. You probably only have one or a few, and it should be easy to determine what each one is.

Andrew Gapstr.

Edited to fix UBB tags
 
 [ 03-09-2003, 09:54 AM: Message edited by: gapstr ]

[swhitset]

george,

I am not sure where your file is, but the size of the file is um... interesting.  The disk you have "copied" sounds like a dual density commercial DVD.  I will not preach about copywrites and such, but I will say that If I am right about what you are trying to do... Good Luck!   Most commercial DVD's have CSS encrypted protection. Even if you are successful in burning the DVD... it won't play because of the encryption.  

There are some freeware programs out there that can be used to strip this protection, but you are still left with the problem of the 9+ GB size of the DVD.  As far as I know, there are no mac compatible programs out there that will split this file into two (so that it could be burned on two DVD-R's.  

The only solution is to use even more software to rip the individual audio and Video tracks off of the disk and then try  to compress them down (losing much quality) into something that will fit on one DVD-R.  You would have to do this manually with every file, and re-synch the audio and vidoe tracks before burning.  This process can take several days to accomplish on a fast mac.

If I have guessed incorrectly what your intentions are, I Apologize--- it's just that those file sizes match exactly.

I have intentionally left any and all links to software mentioned above out of this post.  I happen to subscribe to the Fair use Doctrine for Commercial DVD's I believe I should be able to make backups of DVD's  I own... However the other use of this type of software would be piracy plain and simple.  Hollywood does not agree with even the fair use argument.

There are several programs for doing the above available for the PC so... ??

Steve

[george]

Andrew,
I have tried what you have suggested to no avail.
Steve,
I like you feel that  what I have paid for I should  be  able to copy for my own use, however there are others who would disagree. What I was  doing was experimenting with my new G4 and it's capabilities.
I am not into the business of  serious breach of copyright all I now want is to  undo the the copying and remove the now unwanted file if only I could find the D**ed thing.
My thanks to you both.
George.

[swhitset]

George,

Give a little more information about exactly how you went about trying to make this copy.  Do you have two optical drives?  Were you trying to copy directly from one disk to another?  If so, the files may have never been saved to your hard drive in the first place.  If you are sure that they were saved to disk, try a find by "date created'  in the same manner that Andrew suggested the find by file size.

I am a little confused by how you did this.  When I do something similar to this, I first copy the files to my Hard drive and then tell toast where the files I want burned are.  Somehow it appears you have done it in reverse?  My guess is that you did a copy disc command from within Toast.  I am going to do some experimenting and will be back.

Steve

[swhitset]

Ok george,

I think I know where your file is.... nowhere.

When I tried to duplicate what I think you did By just hitting the copy disc from within Toast, It began importing the disc into Toast's disk cache.  This is a temporary file which was not saved permanantly.

Steve

[kelly]

George. My guess it's either gone like Steve says or a Disk Image.  

Try to find an unknown .dmg

Moral considerations aside, such as the right to archive what you own, to prevent scrathes and such,

DVD copying is a very difficult thing to do.

If you really want to do this you're better off with a PC.  

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/s...3417209,00.html

[george]

Steve,
You are correct in that I  just hit the copy button so the odds are that the file is non-existant.
Kelly, I feel that you you would have done well in the Diplomatic Corps, I feel quite contrite. I have got that "I won't do it again feeling".
George.