Moving Mac CDR to PC

I'm trying to accomplish what I thought in the 21st Century would be a
pretty simple task - burning a few .jpg files to CD-R on my friend's Mac
and later reading and manipulating these files on my Win32 PC. We've
tried it twice now, and in both cases the results are the same - the CD-R
has extra folders on it (one called Trash, one something else), and the jpg
files show up as icons in Windows Explorer but cannot be read or copied.
Windows reports the disc structure is corrupt. Her Mac is about 2 years
old and has System 9.x. On the Mac, we put in a blank CD, and a dialog
box comes up with the choice of making a "Standard", "MP3" or "Itunes"
disk - we've tried both standard and MP3. We drag the jpg files to the
disk icon and hit "Burn CD" off of a menu at the top, and eject the disk
when it's done. The data is certainly there - after trying out several without
success I found a Windows utility called "ISOBuster" which would let me
copy the files. Of course the disks work fine on the Mac. There must be
some simple step on the Mac end that we're missing, what is it?

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(R. Totale) wrote:

 > I'm trying to accomplish what I thought in the 21st Century would be a
 > pretty simple task - burning a few .jpg files to CD-R on my friend's Mac
 > and later reading and manipulating these files on my Win32 PC. We've
 > tried it twice now, and in both cases the results are the same - the CD-R
 > has extra folders on it (one called Trash, one something else), and the jpg
 > files show up as icons in Windows Explorer but cannot be read or copied.
 > Windows reports the disc structure is corrupt. Her Mac is about 2 years
 > old and has System 9.x. On the Mac, we put in a blank CD, and a dialog
 > box comes up with the choice of making a "Standard", "MP3" or "Itunes"
 > disk - we've tried both standard and MP3. We drag the jpg files to the
 > disk icon and hit "Burn CD" off of a menu at the top, and eject the disk
 > when it's done. The data is certainly there - after trying out several without
 > success I found a Windows utility called "ISOBuster" which would let me
 > copy the files. Of course the disks work fine on the Mac. There must be
 > some simple step on the Mac end that we're missing, what is it?

It sounds as if you're not using toast or Dragon burn to make your CD.
Try clicking on Mac Help up at the top and type in burning CD. There has
got to be another option for burning stuff, but probably not.Your
friend's Windows PC might need something to read Mac files. Otherwise,
maybe use Zip or stuffit to compress 'em, then burn 'em or maybe email
'em to your friend. That might be the easiest way to do it

JB