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CDDesigner Manual: Error handling

Error handling

CDDesigner knows about three kinds of errors. The user must decide if any of these should be treated as an error or if it should be ignored.

Kinds of errors

Renaming

The original title of an entry does not equal the title it will have on the CD. In other words: CDDesigner's automatic renaming mechanism has modified an entries filename.

Accessibility

The content of a file cannot be accessed or CDDesigner is not able to read a directory. This happens when the user does not have the permission to read the file or folder or when the file or folder has been moved or removed. The entry's attribute inspector shows if it is accessible or not.

Inconsistence

A file becomes inconsistent when its size changes while writing a CD-R or exporting a raw image. If this kind of error is ignored and the size increases, only the first bytes of the file will be written to the CD-R or exported. If the size decreases, the file will be filled up with zeros.

Check Tree

asks for the kind of errors to be reported and checks the whole tree interactively. Therefore the tree is scanned and any error of the chosen kinds is reported separately.

Errors which cannot be ignored while writing or exporting are always reported.

The User can decide to ignore the error and go on or to cancel the process of checking. If the data tab was visible, the entry that caused the error will be selected. Ignoring the errors inside of this function has no effect on the error handling while writing a CD-R or exporting a raw image.

Exporting and Writing a CD

With ISO9660 based formats the Volume Descriptor's attribute inspector defines CDDesigner's behavior on any kind of error occurring while writing a CD or exporting a raw image.

`Ask User' requests every entry causing an error, `Ignore' tries to handle the problem and `Cancel' stops the actual process if an error occurs.

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