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[j&b]

If I go back to the original disc (X-Files 1), and look in Explorer the disc shows as 46.6GB, if I right click and chose 'Properties' it's 46.6GB, if I then browse the disc and Highlight all the files and folders on the disc and get the properties it comes out at 38.9GB. When you make an ISO from the original disc it keeps the size information that the disc has (in this case 46.6GB) you have to copy everything to a folder and remake it as a new ISO to get rid of the fake size information and get the real size. I'm not sure if this will work if you want to keep the copy protection intact.

lol, that's no protection. 50,000,000,000 / 1024/1024/1024 = 46.6
It all depends from where Windows Explorer gets the info about the drive/disc. It's clear that it does not count the files&folders, but uses UDF info or even medium info. So the reported size is the size of the medium, rather than it's content. To check that, you may find discs from other studios behaving the same.

I just checked with a disc and I got a 34.4G for disc size; so Xfiles 1 has UDF mastered to be spanning the whole medium (even if it does not have that many files) and Windows is getting the size from UDF structures.

[DiabloZoe]

lol, that's no protection. 50,000,000,000 / 1024/1024/1024 = 46.6
It all depends from where Windows Explorer gets the info about the drive/disc. It's clear that it does not count the files&folders, but uses UDF info or even medium info. So the reported size is the size of the medium, rather than it's content. To check that, you may find discs from other studios behaving the same.

I just checked with a disc and I got a 34.4G for disc size; so Xfiles 1 has UDF mastered to be spanning the whole medium (even if it does not have that many files) and Windows is getting the size from UDF structures.

People on the other forum were saying they could not back up the disc because the iso was reporting 46.1 and recordable area on a dl disc is 45.1