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CD Burning support in Panther
...still seems sub-par to me. The other day I was trying to copy a bunch of files from different directories, and Finder locked up - had to force terminate it - and it forgot what it was doing! The burn icon disappeared and was replaced by the eject icon. The second time, after another half hour of dragging files I went to burn, it ran for a couple seconds, then claimed it couldn't write to the blank CD for some reason, and again all the files I had copied were gone! I'm also not happy that I still can't mount a CD-RW as a normal drive, via packet writing.
CD Burning support in Panther
I haven't seen any of these issues that you've mentioned but here's a good workaround:
CD Burning support in Panther
Oh, one more thing. If you do a lot of burns just save the dmg file for later burns. If you need to change the stuff on it then double-click it to mount it and add/trash items. Don't forget to empty the trash before you burn. Once you are done just do steps 8 - 10 to burn another disk.
CD Burning support in Panther
3. choose Size->660 MB (CD ROM 12 cm)
Good tip, I'll do it this way from now on. But I'm curious about the CD size. Originally CDs were 650MB but now I see other sizes regularly, for example I got a 50 pack of 700MB CDs, and in your above example you use 660MB. I've never really understood what they were doing to get the extra space, or what would happen if you tried to access a "larger" CD on an older CDROM. Any idea? BTW, I'm really "retentive" about using up all the space on a CD-R. I usually fill it until there are only a few hundred Kbytes left, even if it means putting on stuff I don't really need on the CD but wouldn't mind having an extra "backup" copy of. I'm beginning to wonder if this, in combination with different CD sizes, might be my problem in having my burn mysteriously fail.
CD Burning support in Panther
You can set up disk images of any size that you want, I was just using the largest CD-ROM size that is built-in to Disk Utility. I did this to make things easy and also because it was pretty safe. You could just as easily use the Custom option and enter in 700 MB. The only thing is that you might end up with an image which is larger than the disk you are going to burn to.
CD Burning support in Panther
Disk utility sounds like what you are looking for, although the burn app in the hint does bybass the copy process.
CD Burning support in Panther
If you need more features, I would suggest Toast.
I would buy Toast if it had packet writing. I've been "pestering" Roxio on and off for quite a while for their "DirectCD" feature on the Mac OS X platform. I'm really quite stumped as to what's taking so long. There site has really been no help to me in trying to figure out if any of their OS X products support packet writing. Maybe it's not a popular feature, but I would consider it *the* feature, the *only* reason to buy third party burning software. Of course I have a similar problem in general - software companies that give you no clue what platform they support, because they assume Windows is the only thing out there (or that you should spring for Virtual PC). bleah.
CD Burning support in Panther
I just wish Apple would include some easy, thorough burn software with the OS. I'd settle for being able to do multiple sessions without disk utility, and to be able to burn without having Finder copy the data first. Burning with Finder may be really simple, but it sure is slow and limited.
Wait a minute...
Do you mean that there's a way to use a CD-RW as a sort glorified floppy? Add and delete files from the Finder, etc? Man, that would be PRICELESS!
Re: Wait a minute...
Yes, exactly. A sort of glorified floppy. I've hounded Roxio so much they don't respond to my e-mails anymore. ;-) |
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