My DVD and CD archives keep crashing my finder

I'm trying to find some old files and am having loads of problems. Many of my DVDs and CDs that I archived files on are running crazy slow, are hard to drill down through, crash my finder, can't open, or my iMac spits them out! I really am getting worried, the extent of unusable archived CDs is scaring me. I did the drill, kept on top of archiving files in duplicate, now I can't open half of them! Any ideas? A little desperate...

On a Late 2009 27" iMac i7, Sierra

iMac 27", macOS 10.12

Posted on Mar 26, 2020 8:01 PM

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BDAqua

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Mar 26, 2020 8:05 PM in response to Mike Gorman

I found out too late that Optical for backups wasn't what it was cracked up to be.

First try one of the Cleaning CDs to clean the drive, next try an external AC powered CD/DVD Drive.

Mike Gorman Author

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Mar 31, 2020 6:51 AM in response to BDAqua

It’s a very long story, but in a nutshell I had an old failed external hard drive that I ended up pulling the drive out of (it was actually the housing that failed!) I put that drive in a dock and was able to recover everything. That said, no, my cd and dvd situation got no better, but at least I was able to recover my files in a different way. Thanks!

BDAqua

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Mar 30, 2020 1:24 PM in response to Mike Gorman

Any luck?

BDAqua

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Mar 31, 2020 10:06 AM in response to Mike Gorman

Well, good work, good to hear your Files recovered OK. :)

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My DVD and CD archives keep crashing my finder