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If you see message Source and destination file names are the same when you try to burn the files to disc on Windows, see this post.

The source file name (s) are larger than is supported by the file system This situation typically happens when you create a lot of sub-folders, and the path address becomes long.

When files on a hard drive were originating from a MAC device and then moved to a Windows machine, the notice “Can’t read from source file or disk” appears.

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