Confirm Stream Loss
 

Hi I have a new CD writer that has been operating fine, but today when I go to copy files they becoming corrupted, no matter what media I use, I usually use nero for copying my CD's but have also tried using Drag and Drop in XP Home. This comes up with the question of 'confirm stream loss' this is something I have not encountered before, but having checked the web and doing everything it says, it still writes corrupt files, has anybody else had this problem?

Many thanks
Andy

Re: Confirm Stream Loss
 

Andy,

What type of files are they?

An NTFS file can have multiple 'streams' of which only the main stream is usually visible in explorer. The typical use of the stream is to hold comments like the ones you see in the file properties tab.

The CD is a non-NTFS device and if the file has important info held in the stream it won't get saved on the CD. IIRC Outlook allows you to send all streams for a given file.

You could also try zipping the files to see iff that preserves the streams.

HTH