[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Bryan Baker]

Uh, I think you have .mac, and since this is for archival purposes 
(backup) have you considered Apple's "Backup" utility? iirc it'll 
auto-fit onto media.

On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>> 	I need to do a rather massive burning job [moving photo
>> images from CD to harddrive then burning to archival DVDs] and in the
>> past I've had trouble using the OSX Burn feature [so far tho that is
>> all I've needed] but do have Toast 6 and seem to recall that that
>> program would allow moving the images all from CD to the harddrive
>> and then burning them to the DVDs en masse, where it would stop at
>> the end of the DVD space and ask for another DVD to be put in....is
>> that right or is there a better program?  I'd like to streamline the
>> process as much as possible so I don't need to watch over it as it
>> goes along.
>
> One person did suggest an easy answer, which might be to just copy 
> over X CDs into folder and then burn the folder onto DVDs since they'd 
> be about right size in bulk.  But on thinking this through, that's not 
> going to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
>
> I have about 80 CDs and DVDs nonarchival in nature of photos that i 
> want to put on Archival disks.  But the complicating problem is that 
> amongst those are 8-9 duplicate sets = being so cautious over time I 
> have backed up or copied Picture X some 8-9 times, so that what I do 
> want to do is some cleaning out and cleansing...I can use TidyUp or 
> other programs to find dups and then delete some and THEN do the 
> backing up to archival, but the same Q then presents itself, how can I 
> put all the to-be-burned items in one folder and then have a program 
> know enough to fill up ARchival disk 1 and then call for Disk 2 and 
> then 3 etc = so that I don't have to guess at how many photos it will 
> take to fill up one?  Some pics are going to be 1mb and some 40mb, 
> depending, so I can't just assume it'll take so many pics to do this.
>
> I thought Toast allowed you to just put all stuff in its window and 
> it'd burn what it needed to on Disk 1 and then call out for Disk 2, 
> but I tried that recently and it didn't work.  Maybe I did it wrong, 
> maybe it needs Toast 7...is there any other program?  OSX Burn doesn't 
> do it....as far as I know.
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