There is UDF and the older ISO 9660. But it...

Martijn I have had to little practice with DVDs that I might just have burned the DVD in HFS+, rendering Windows computers unable to read it. Oops.

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Mark Dain Is that possible? I thought DVD had its own file system format?

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Martijn There is UDF and the older ISO 9660. But it looks like a data DVD burned through Finder will be in HFS+, because all those old Hodgman and Long ads about how Mac is compatible with everything is a lie.

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Mark Dain Oh that's a real issue then. I burned some DVDs some time ago containing backup copies of my company's master PGP key. I'll have to recall one of them and check the filesystem.

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Martijn Hmm. Apple might be using some arcane multiple format or finder is lying. I was able to open my data DVD on an ancient Windows XP box just now. If you are storing backups like that I would definitely verify the data on a secondary machine though.

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