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File name conversion when burning data CD

Asked by Bob Harvey

Hi
Version 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I am backing up a Windows machine onto CD through my Ubuntu machine (which has the burner). So I copy the files to the Ubuntu machine, and try to burn the CD. Sometimes it's OK. Other times it decides that the file names are not compatible with Windows so it converts them to 8-character uppercase (the old DOS format). I have tried the standard CD/DVD Gnome burn utility, and Brasero; both do the same thing (though they take a slightly different approach to renaming). How can I stop this happening, as I want the original Windows directory names and filenames intact?
Thanks, Bob.

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Bob Harvey (bob-harvey) said : 		#1

This is more subtle than I thought. Burn using Brasero shows up fine on a Linux machine but has short names on WinXP. Burn using standard Gnome CD/DVD burner creates a new folder called RR_MOVED (I'm guessing that this is because of something to do with file/folder name length). On WinXP all file/folder names are shortened and uppercased (as for Brasero) but the RR_MOVED folder shows files under WinXP but is empty under Linux.

To summarise, both burning tools create discs which show up as having the original Windows file/folder names under Linux, but when inserted back into a Windows machine have file/folder names shortened to 8 chars and uppercased. In addition, the standard Gnome burn tool creates a new folder in which Windows can find files (albeit with names grunged) but Linux cannot.

So the best guess I can make is that the Linux burn tools somehow create a CD format which Windows interprets as requiring to have file/folder names grunged to DOS format. If so, any idea why? And why are there files in the RR_MOVED folder which Linux cannot see but Windows can?

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Best ex-xp64 (ex-xp64) said : 		#2

enable Joliet extension?

Personally I use k3b on ubuntu...lots of configuration options

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Bob Harvey (bob-harvey) said : 		#3

Thanks heaps. Must confess I have never managed to get my head round all the options like Joliet. Must Wikipedia sometime.