Where are my files?

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robertissimo

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several yeard ago designed some material with Roxio easy media 6...they were recorded onto my print perfect business publisher DVD ROM. Now, with a new Vista PC, retrayed to review my work, but I don't see the files...and cannot verify because do not have Roxio any longer. What could have happened? are those files still recorded onto the Business publisher gallery? Do i have to install Roxio to see and modify my work?
 
files are files, they will be where you left them, assuming you didnt delete them. where you left them exactly, how the hell am i or anyone on the internet supposed to know?
 
Sounds like Roxio used a proprietary disc format that requires the application to be installed (actually the filter drivers that come with the application) in order to see the files. on the media.

Not sure what Business publisher gallery is.
 
I find it hard to believe that they would use a proprietary file system to store the files. It has probably suffered bitrot and the disc is junk. What does the disc show up as in windows and what type of media was it burned onto?
 
Compatibility is not perfect on burned dvd. Sometime you new drive might not be able to read it while another could. Try it on another system to be sure it is not a problem between that drive and that specific brand of burned dvd.
 
If you used the drag and drop option they used to have; then it could have a proprietary system. There were different options.
 
Roxio easy media came pre-installed on my Pavilion running XP at the time, and the images retouched with Roxio photo enhacer, were saved within in the Roxio folders, but since i did not back up the files, they are gone. However, the files created with Cosmi desktop publishing DVD ROM, were saved in the DVD ROM personal gallery, so they should be visible on my Toshiba laptop, running Vista...they were never deleted, only saved as DPT files.
 
Unless you are lucky and find some other person here that has experience with Cosmi you are going to have to do some debugging yourself or contact the support for Cosmi desktop publishing and ask them.

Did you look at the contents of the DVD? Did you enable the windows option to view all files including system and hidden? What does the content on the DVD look like?
 
the contents are just files designed with Publisher and saved in the personal gallery...let me try to enable the windows option to view all files...how do we proceed?
 
You just need Roxio's old packet writing application, DirectCD/Drag2Disc. They dropped it years ago, but you can still download it from the usual places. It probably only works in WinXP.

Fire up a Windows XP VM, install their packet writing crapware, then copy the contents of the disks to your hard drive. Or you may be able to use this on a linux livecd:
http://www.13thmonkey.org/udfclient/
 
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