I made dozens of CDs of my photoshopped images on my very Oldolder computer. I am trying to view and use them on my new Mac 2022 Ventura. Using USB Superdrive. The drive accepts the disks but then I get a message that it is unreadable on this computer. Purchased music and some other cds work, but not the ones I made from my own photoshop images. What to do?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13
How the CDs were made could be an issue if they used a file system which Apple may no longer support.
More likely these CDs have degraded over time and are no longer usable. Try accessing the CDs using an older Mac or possibly even a Windows PC if the CDs were made for general use and not tied specifically to a Mac.
Good afternoon Aoomi,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like you saved some Photoshop files on dozens of CDs but are not able to read them on the USB Superdrive attached to your new Mac.
Data CDs are different than Music CDs. That's why you are having no problem playing music CDs.
Were these photos saved to a data CD? What is the file extension?
Are these files included in a Time Machine backup?
Let us know more about how these files were created.
Take care.
I appreciate you answering my question. I am now looking at some of my CDs on my Mac that were made in 1965. (Yeah, I'm an old lady). They are all Photoshop. The computer I am viewing them on must be 20 years old. They still work on that computer. So not degraded over time. This was before the cloud and before Time Machine. The file extension is TIF, most are PSD. My newest computer is the latest iMac (Ventura). I am thinking that I could copy them from the old computer to the new. And then print.
Thanks
Sorry that 1965 was supposed to be 2005!
CDs burned from photoshop on my old imac will not open on my new imac
