Went to Italy 2005 and put the Photos on 2 CD's. I am trying to make some prints up but when I insert the DVD in my IMAC nothing happens. I look under Devices and it does not show up there. How can I get my photos off the DVD and put them in LR? I am not sure what I used back then. Maybe Canon 5D Thank you. Dennis
You have mentioned two different formats here, DVD and CD, so I'm not sure what we're dealing with. I'm also not sure it would make any difference, but thought I'd ask you to verify which format these are. I just tried a DVD full of customer backup files dating back to 2006, although they probably wouldn't have been burned on the DVD until approximately 2011. I do have some that were burned earlier, but I don't have the time to look through all of my DVDs now. However, I'm running High Sierra and no problem at all opening all of the files, either in the Finder or in Photoshop. My question is, what quality of CD or DVD did you use? There are just the run of the mill CDs/DVDs, and then there are Archival versions of both, which obviously cost more. I use the Taiyo Yuden CD/DVDs, because I know the files I burn will last at least as long as that format is supported. Taiyo Yuden also produces these discs for JVC and Verbatim, but not sure that was the case back in 2005. There's no doubt that not all CD/DVDs are created equal. Now, the next question is what app did you use to burn the files? The same issue goes along with some burning apps as well unfortunately, so that could also be a contributing factor to your problem. And by the way, Taiyo Yuden is the Japanese company that first perfected the CD/DVD format, and they have always striven for the best archival media possible. As Tibor has mentioned, go back to an older OS and try there. If that works it would probably be a good idea to re-burn them on a good quality CD/DVD.
Gary
