Computer help forum: more than 1000 pictures disappear from dvd+rw disk, help!

We strongly discourage use of so called packet writing software to use a DVD as kind of a gigantic floppy or smallish USB-stick. Those are unreliable, as you see. That's all that can be said about it, since you didn't tell what program you used to write to that DVD, nor anything about your OS (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8?).

And a more general remark. If you have an original and you make a (backup) copy of it, you have 2 copies. If you delete the original, you've only got one copy and no backup. Then if something goes wrong, it's gone. That's why we strongly encourage members to make a backup, and preferably more than one, of everything they don't want to loose.
Some of our members learn that too late.

It could be the disk isn't 'closed' yet. In that case, it might help to close it now. If not, contact drivesavers.com and ask them if they can recover your pictures and how much it will cost. Most likely, much more expensive than a backup would have been.

Kees

I'm unsure how many times we've told folk to stop using that system. We also write "we only lose what we don't backup."

Given the dollar each of those discs can cost, if it was worth saving, where is the backup?
Bob

Thank you all for your answers...guess I won't be using dvds to save files anymore.