How to keep incomplete file?

[trodas]

Hi mates :D

I got a strange request, as the title suggest. The reason is, that when I burned the VideoCD stream for Star Wars III, second CD, for friend, it ended up with too big overburn, that many CDroms can't read.

But since the file is mpeg, it not need to be copiied complete - partial files work as well, just the ent titles will be probably cut out :)

Anyway, back to the problem. When error in copy happens, most programs end by deleting the partial file, witch is in 99.9% of cases logical. But what to do, when I did not want the file get deleted? Anyone?

All I managed with Google to find (I used this keep "incomplete file" copy win search string) was some linux/MacOSX only filemanager, that seems be capable of this:

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/wdownload.php

for file copy ... You can now choose to keep the incomplete file or delete it

So, is this possible on windows too?

[Daveb2012]

im pretty confident this is not possible. why not just get some more insurance with more drive space and not worry? also a partial file in windows is pretty much garbage if its not complete.

[gillll]

with which program you are burning cause the temp file is according to the prog.

vlc media player is a good proggie which is for mpeg streaming and can also open paritial files.

http://www.videolan.org/