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Download large files directly to CD-R volumes
Authored by: stottm on May 13, '03 05:04:30PM

Let's get a few things straight.

  1. You are not downloading straight to the CD.
  2. You are downloading to a folder listed under /Volumes 'Untitled CD' until you rename the volume label.
  3. A blank CD-R/RW disc is not really mounted because there is no disc volume to mount. It will appear mounted but it's not really mounted.
  4. When you tell it to burn the disc, the files are copied to the CD-R/RW disc. The temporary folder is removed once the write is fully verified.
  5. The disc is then mounted. This time it's truly mounted under /Volumes.

Sure, it's confusing but I have to give Apple credit for having thought this whole process through and to make it very simple and easy. Linux is nowhere near easy when working with CD-R/RW using cdrecord, etc. WinXP added this sort of functionality and obviously copied Apple's way of doing it. However, WinXP won't tell you when you have exceeded the size of the CD capacity. It will tell you only once it's started burning already. Not sure about OS X, but I am not willing to test it out just yet.

My only gripe is they don't support multi-session recording on a CD-RW. I have to copy the CD-RW files to the hard disk, erase the CD-RW, and then re-burn it from scratch. Sure you can do a multi-session but you end up with each session getting it's own mount point which is weird.

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Finder burning process not very smart
Authored by: karnat10 on May 13, '03 05:57:13PM

Because you need twice the space on your drive. OK, for those of you with large drives that's not a problem, but it is also a lot slower than just burning files directly using specialized software like Toast.

I think it would have been much more intuitive if you could burn folders using the context menu. And then you should be able to burn ISO CDs.



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