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Authored by: Uncle-D on Jul 18, '02 10:50:08PM

There's an hidden option in Disk Copy
(which seem to be present in Jaguar, base on some screen shot)

Add to the Disk Copy preferences:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DiskCopy.plist

The following two lines:
<key>Burning Force Disc Close After Burn</key>
<false/>

There's two other hidden options which I haven't tried:
(which also seem to be present in Jaguar)
<key>Burning Skip Final Free Partition</key>
<key>Burning Optimize Volumes Before Burn</key>



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Hidden options - YES! Now it works!
Authored by: JB Cheong on Jul 19, '02 12:04:44AM

Like some of you, I couldn't get the trick to work too.

So I tried the hidden option as mentioned by Uncle-D. I use PrefEdit to add it into the preference file.

The "Append" button magically appeared when I burn the second session, and the third and the forth...!

After burning the third session, I inserted the disc into my Rev. B iMac which has a CD-ROM. All three sessions mounted nicely. Therefore it appears there's no need to "close" the disc at all.

I further confirm the hidden option does work as advertised by setting the option to true, ie, force close the CD after burning. Bang, I can't append a fifth session after that. That being the case, it therefore explains why previously burned (and force closed by default) disc will not be allowed to append new sessions.

My tests were all performed using a CD-RW disc, an IDE SONY burner, and the first session was burn in DiskCopy instead of Finder.

So, a big THANK YOU to uncle-d for your tip!

I wonder what the other two options do...


JB Cheong
Sinagpore



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Hidden options - YES! Now it works!
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 19, '02 01:49:31AM

No luck here either - tried it first with no mods - no luck. Then tried the .plist mods - still no luck. Tried it on both internal CD-RW and external FW CD-RW. Sure would be nice if we could get some workable details here.



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Authored by: Steve_Jam on Jul 19, '02 03:26:39AM

The newbie asks: after opening com.Apple.DiskCopy.plist with TextEdit, where in the text do you actually add those extra few lines? At the very end?

Thanks for help,

SJJ



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Authored by: Ken Knoblauch on Jul 19, '02 07:19:11AM

With great naivity, I went ahead and added the two lines that you suggest in the Disk Copy preferences file, using vi. When I looked at what had been saved, it looks like the files has been altered, not just appended to. An option that was there before now seems absent. With additional naivity (you can call it stupidity now), I had not made a temp copy of the preferences file. Can someone suggest how to recover a copy of the previous one? I know that it is lost on my system, but perhaps there is a default .plist for Disk Copy that is available or that someone would be willing to send or post. When I tested it with 'file', it indicated that the file was in ASCII. Thanks, if you can help.



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Authored by: gvitale on Jul 19, '02 08:21:39AM

Trash it; it will be recreated the next tine you open DiskCopy, with default prefs



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