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Is the media creation date stored in the "Volume Set Identifier"? I want to know the burn dates of my mastered BD-R media


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I'd like to know if the media creation date is stored in the "Volume Set Identifier" by chance and if so, is it a date and time, just a date, and how many characters do I need to convert it to an actual operating system date and time?

I know the log file stores enough data to possibly get it from there but let's pretend that got deleted by accident or corrupted. And I wanna get it from the media itself. Is this possible?

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I don't know this for sure, but I don't think there's any metadata burned to a disc by ImgBurn that tells when it was written.  The closest you can probably get is to check the date/time stamps on files on the media and you might get an idea.

 

One thing I do when Building an ISO is put a folder in the root directory with the current date to let me know when it was created.

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Yes, something along those lines will work, if, he doesn't use a date/time stamp in that Volume Set Identifier. I just had another idea also. There are 5 fields you can populate with data on the "Labels" tab called "Volume Identifiers". One of them is called "System" so I could just generate a date/time and cut'n'paste into that field. But, reading those fields would only be easy using ImgBurn, I imagine. So.....maybe a text file with the most recent date/time in the root of the DISC as you suggested. Even in the volume label itself if you don't need the full 128 ASCII characters that a UDF label provides. Just kicking around some ideas. Or I could just go old skhool and pickup a sharpie after the burn and....you get the idea! :) I've actually done this before on a few platters.

Edited by AlbertEinstein

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