what happens if the folder exceeds dvd size or cd size can you split disks
or other wise disk span? if so how do you do this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woody Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: Burn Folders and Backup
Burn Folder
When in the Finder under the File menu you will find a command: "New Burn
Folder".
This is a special folder that creates aliases to items you frequently
burn to CD or DVD.
Create a Backup folder somewhere in your home directory, within that
create as many separate burn folders as you desire.
In this example I will use backing up Mail.
1) Create a general backup folder, you can then place that folder in the
Sidebar by selecting folder and using Command T (Step one is optional).
2) (Within that) create a "New Burn Folder" and name it Mail Backup.
3) Open a second Finder window and Navigate to the Library within your
home directory. Within that folder navigate to the Mail Folder.
4) With the Mail folder selected, create alias with Command L, (In list
view the alias will be one line item below the item you aliased, Command
2 for list view.)
5) Select the alias and copy (Command C).
6) Use the window chooser (Control Option F2 F2) to select the Mail
Backup folder.
7) Paste the alias into that folder.
8) Return to the LIbrary by your window chooser (Control Option F2 F2)
9) Delete the alias you just pasted into your burn folder if you desire
(there is no harm in leaving it).
Repeat these steps for:
Mail Downloads (~/Library/Mail Downloads)along with Mail Preferences
(~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist)
To use the "Burn Folder" with VoiceOver. When you navigate in a finder
window of a selected burn folder Your VoiceOver curser will run across
the tool palette at the top of the window and then the Sidebar, Vertical
Splitter, and then, Unknown (it is a horizontal strip above the content
area). Interact with "unknown" by Control Option Shift Down Arrow, there
are two items, the name of the folder and the button to "burn". Activate
the burn button with Control Option Space Bar. A dialogue window will
appear giving you the chance to name the CD, burn speed along with
notification of approximate size of burn.
Note: The burn folder is meant to contain alias of items you wish to burn
NOT the original item itself. When done in the visual world of drag and
drop, that is very obvious. IF one simply copied and pasted the original
item into the burn folder it will not be burning what one intended.
Please take care not to move or delete the items I have listed!
Woody
