Burned a CD on another computer with Roxio Adaptec. Recall program noting file names would be truncated--and they were but file extensions remain (e.g. progra~2.doc, tonia~.pdf, blahbl~.qxd) I cannot open any of the files with any program except the word docs will open in text only and show some words but mostly lots and lots of nonsense (code?). Tried to save to desktop and rename but to no avail. Errors are generated from whatever program the file is supposed to open in, Word, Quark, Acrobat as something to the effect of file not recognized by program.

it'll say somewhere in the documentation that you can't read some cd's burnt with another burner...and there's your problem

Are you saying the burner hardware? I am using Adaptec older version software, and have tried it on two burners and one reader. Same deal. Just trying to confirm if it is the actual burner you mean.

I don't have the Roxio program in front of me, but isn't there some setting to check when closing the CD burning session to enable other computers to see the data ? I did something wrong one time, and when I had taken it to another computer, it said it was not a Win32 application or something similar. Then I got back home and found I wasn't saving the burned CD correctly. Could be something similar in your situation.

I do have the newest version of Roxio and I know what you are talking about. After you click on record you have these options: Finalize this session or Finalize CD. I have heard that on some machines it cannot read a disk created on other machines if it is not a finalized CD. And there are some cases that when you burn a cd in one burner it will only read in that burner. Lots of touch and go do's and don't when it comes to burning. Like speed factors or cdr's vs. cdrw's.

Alright, Thanks all for your advice so far, good direction. I finalized or rather closed the session and the CD but the files are still inaccessible as before. The disk is a CD-R. It is not that I cannot open the CD, it is that I cannot open the files. I can see they are there, I can see their truncated names and correct file extensions, but the programs associated will not open them, except for Word, which will open but in plain text with a bunch of code, as if I were opening an newer version doc with an older version program or sometimes what can happen from a Word Mac file to open on PC Word. Anyone ever had this problem before? Or, have any ideas of how to extract the files from the CD in a way that will allow me to open them intact?