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<usenetOnly-C8E896.08263524072003@news03.west.earthlink.net>,
Not Exactly Thrilled <usenetOnly@earthlink.net> wrote:

Thank you Hugh, Matt, and Tom! Naturally, I am a little embarrassed to
have not looked for a curious backdoor approach. And I certainly should have RTFM (oh, online technotes, thaaaaat manual). The basic problems for a program to create multiple virtual volumes on a CD are more
apparent now.

Using DiskCopy in the simplest case isn't that bad. Of course, you have
to put individual files in a folder. After dragging the folder to
DiskCopy, it's not hard to locate and "burn" the DMG. Yet there seems
to be a minor difficulty with folder background images: they aren't
shown in a Finder view of the folder on CD. Is that due to DiskCopy or Finder?.

You could just create the disk image in advance and then drag files
and/or folders to it as desired. Once you're satisfied with the
contents of the disk image, you can burn it to CD as either a single or multi-session volume.

Copying multiple distinct folders is a bigger problem. You either have
to do a "pre-image" copy to a single folder or iterate image-burn for
each folder.

So is it really impossible to append to a CD with just a single
drag-n-drop and get a Finder-level replica of the source? Is it too
much to expect that copying single files and multiple folders work in
the same fashion as copying a single folder? Does Roxio Toast (or any
other program) offer any improvements on DiskCopy?

The Finder views a multi-session CD as multiple volumes, not as a single "extended" volume. Given that, the concept of extending a (CD) volume
by dragging additional folders to it doesn't follow.

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