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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Traditional videotapes also go mouldy in a tropical climate – I understand it is due to the gelatine on the tape, I would imagine this could happen with DV tapes too, if they are made using any similar animal or vegetable material.<BR>
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Katie Alcock<BR>
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Katie Alcock, DPhil<BR>
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University of Lancaster<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"Madalena Cruz-Ferreira" <ellmcf@nus.edu.sg><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:21:47 +0800<BR>
<B>To: </B>"Peyton Todd" <peytontodd@mindspring.com>, <info-childes@mail.talkbank.org><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>RE: warning on formats and media<BR>
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Dear Peyton and all,<BR>
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Just one short addition to what you wrote:<BR>
>no one knows how long DVDs will keep. I'm really scared of them myself.<BR>
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If you live in a tropical climate, they will besides rot away wherever you store them -- unless you ziplock them, one by one. I learned this the hard way. So yes, external hard drives are my current choice too. But I also had to learn not to use them to full capacity. If I do, I can't access their contents on my laptop. The technician who recently helped me retrieve my files told me that these drives were created with portability in mind, not as permanent storage devices.<BR>
Thanks for all this really, really useful information!<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<BR>
<B>From:</B> info-childes@mail.talkbank.org [<a href="mailto:info-childes@mail.talkbank.org]">mailto:info-childes@mail.talkbank.org]</a><B>On Behalf Of </B>Peyton Todd<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Friday, 24 March, 2006 3:04 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> info-childes@mail.talkbank.org<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: warning on formats and media<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">Dear Info-Childes:<BR>
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