Getting the contents off unreadable(?) CD/DVDs
Mac OS X Lion is full of mysteries and wonders bugs.
When my wife called me (back then, she was my girlfriend) saying that the DVD containing wedding rehearsal photos were not readable from her Mac Mini, I was expecting the DVD was defected or my wife was doing something wrong.
I didn’t suspect Mac OS X Lion as the source of the problem.
Last night, I inserted another DVD containing photos from my wedding ceremony. Nothing showed up on the Desktop. Even in the Finder, all I can see was a disabled DVD icon that I cannot select and see the contents of it.
Fortunately, I thought to myself, “Well, it seems that the DVD was successfully mounted, what I couldn’t do was getting it recognized by the Finder.”
I fired up Terminal Application, and went into the Volumes directory.
Voilà!
I was able to get all the contents off the disc using cp command from the Terminal.
The odd thing was the names of the disc itself and it’s folders. Oh no, the odd thing was Mac OS X Lion. Because Snow Leopard handled it all well without any hiccups.
