The Back Up tp Disc feature is meant to provide an easy way to
preserve copies of purchased music on Apple Computers, which come with
either Combo drive (CD reader/writer + DVD reader) or Super drive (CD
and DVD reader/wrtiters). Apple/iTunes has no general way to detect
which systems have set up an external hard drive or how it is
configured or what the permissions are. Remember that iTunes menu
options are supposed to work generally for iTunes installations on ALL
systems --- both Windows and Mac. A lot of these features are aimed
at the person who does no backup whatsoever, doesn't buy any hard
drives (extra expense), and carries all their music on their iPod
(again, with no backups). That person might just have invested in a
few blank CDs to burn their music, and might, if it were made simple,
push a button to preserve a separate copy of all purchased music on
CD. You don't have to use this feature if you have something better in
place.
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
true like an external
that would be better than keep wasting dvd's or cd's
On 13 Sep 2008, at 13:17, David Poehlman wrote:
I would rather have the possibility to back up to a different drive.
