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  • Re: create multi-session CD on OSX

    From Tom Stiller@tomstiller@comcast.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 24, 2003 13:52:47
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article
    <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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    Tom Stiller

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