Bizarre Msg While Copying to CD-RW

[Doug Kanter]

This was my first experience with copying files to a CD-RW. While copying
some Excel files, I got a message in a dialog box entitled "Confirm Stream
Loss". The message itself:
"The file blahblah.xls has extra information attached to it that might be
lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file will not be affected.
Do you want to copy the file anyway?"

Some remaining text shows author & modification date info. Is this so-called
risk particular to CD-RWs? I've never seen a message like this while copying
to any other medium.

 

[Mike Williams]

This was my first experience with copying files to a CD-RW. While copying
some Excel files, I got a message in a dialog box entitled "Confirm Stream
Loss". The message itself:
"The file blahblah.xls has extra information attached to it that might be
lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file will not be affected.
Do you want to copy the file anyway?"

Some remaining text shows author & modification date info. Is this so-called
risk particular to CD-RWs? I've never seen a message like this while copying
to any other medium.

If you're copying a file from an NTFS partition, there may be extra data
"streams" stored in the file that is helpful for managing that file.
Similar messages occur with MacOS.

Just ignore all such cases. Nothing important will be lost.

 

[Guest]

I don't have the answer, but I have seen this with when copying a file to a
CD-R, just the other day as a matter of fact. I'm wondering if perhaps an
issue with hyperlinks? This was the only diff I could find in the file that
gave me the same message that you rec'd.

 

[Doug Kanter]

OK. I never refer to the author & other info anyway.

 

[Guest]

I get this message when I'm trying to burn pictures to a cd. I choose "yes"
or "skip" to not copy. I'm able to burn the cd but then the cd can't be
read. So how do I get around this?