Cue file showing up as disk image file with ImgBurn icon.

[ZoeyWillow]

My cue. files are being converted into disc image files with the ImgBurn logo without my permission. I don't understand what is going on or how to stop it disc image files are useless to me and I need to back up my games. How do I prevent cue files from being converted to disc image files?

[dbminter]

That's odd.  It should theoretically be impossible for .CUE creation to make image files.  .CUE files are burned on the fly to CD writable discs.  Near as I ever saw, it wasn't even possible to create image files when creating a .CUE in ImgBurn.

 

You are using the Create .CUE File function to make an Audio CD, right?

 

When you say "with the ImgBurn logo," do you mean the image files have the ImgBurn icon associated with them in File Explorer?

[ZoeyWillow]

The cue files converted to Disc Image files by themselves before I used 7-zip or ImgBurn. The date modified was also messed up by whatever's going wrong.

[dbminter]

Ah, then this is not ImgBurn's creating a .CUE file.  ImgBurn creates Audio CD's with its .CUE creation function.  The file names sound like they're a downloaded PS1 game.

 

The .CUE file is associated with ImgBurn because when it's installed, it automatically Associates itself with .CUE files so when you click on the .CUE file, ImgBurn will automatically open, open it for burning, and let the user proceed from there.

 

ImgBurn is not doing this BIN CUE file creation itself unless you're using Build mode and adding folders from a PS 1 game to it.  Which you shouldn't do as the resulting disc most likely won't play.

[ZoeyWillow]

Ive used ImgBurn to create backups of my Sega Saturn games before. I've only recently run into this problem where files that were cue files are converted to disc image files without my permission or input.

[dbminter]

ImgBurn doesn't do any conversion.  BIN/CUE is how ImgBurn generally saves Audio CD's.  Data CD's/mixed mode stuff like Sega Saturn games would be saved as disc image files since BIN/CUE is only necessarily for Audio CD's from ImgBurn's point of view.

 

Whatever would have created Sega Saturn games as BIN/CUE probably shouldn't have done that in the first place.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Nothing has happened to your files, they’re exactly as they’ve always been. 
 

Turn on ‘show file extensions’ within explorer, you’ll see the file is still a cue file. Just right click it and open it in notepad. 
 

As DB has already told you, the name you’re seeing there is purely due to the ‘friendly’ file association name (description).