Corrupt DVD

Historically about 10-15% of the CDs and DVDs I burn become unusable after several months. I store them properly. And this happens across multiple computers, burners, and operating systems. I've learned my lesson and I backup to external hard drives.
Anyway, here's my question. I came across a DVD I burned about a year ago. Finder sees the directories and files, but I cannot view most of the files. I can view text files, but that is all. Nothing on this DVD is worth asking a professional to recover the files or even purchasing software to recover (not to mention all the software I can find is Windows only).
Here's my question. Are there any tools built-in to Mac OS X that would allow me to repair these files? I'm not afraid to use the command line. I can copy them to my hard drive, but still cannot open them. I'd like to learn a way to do this in case I ever do need to recover valuable files from optical media.
Thanks,
John

Hi John
What do you mean by saying you cannot open them?
In my experience, it's often because people forget to add the file extension (.xls for Excel sheets as an example), but this might not be the problem.
In Finder > Preferences > Advanced you can check the box "Show all file extensions".
Copy a file of which you know the application you created it with over to your hard disk and rename the file.
For example: MyExcelSheet > MyExcelSheet.xls
(Tipp: If you choose the file with a single click and then press Enter or Return, Finder lets you rename it. In my opinion this is far easier than double clicking it slowly which has the same effect, but sometimes you are to fast with clicking sometimes to slow - the other way it will always work).
If this turns out to be your problem and you have a lot of files created within the same applications you might want to look at one of these apps:
http://software.christopherdrum.com/filewrangler/
http://www.power4mac.com/renamer/index.php?page=description
Hope this helps
--greg

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