Use multisession burning. I am not sure whether OS X provides this by
default, but there are different applications out there which do a
better job. Personally I use Toast, which costs money. But there are
Free- and Shareware solutions, too.
The downside: CDs are not really made for this kind of thing. CDs can
store a lot of files, but they don't really lend themselves to this kind
of backup on a file by file basis. They are good at storing whole
archives of Finale files, you will probably easily fit all your Finale
files, word processing documents and most other documents you have on
one single CD.
If you backup your one Finale files fifty times on a multisession disk,
you will get 50 CD icons on your desktop when you mount that CD. Not
very practical.
There are other CD formats that may be better suuited.
Personally I would invest into an external harddrive (Firewire), and use
a dedicated simple backup application to regularly backup your complete
user folder. Do a CD backup perhaps every month of your complete
documents folder. Keep at least the three most recent CD backups.
I use the backup application DejaVu which came with Toast 6, and it
works extremely well for me. I have two external HDs, one of them a
portable one which I take with me when I go away with my laptop. (I also
use this for session backups when I am recording with the laptop. It is
small enough to fit in a breast pocket and I even take it out of the
studio with me to go for lunch - nothing worse than loosing complete
studio sessions....)
Johannes
On 7:01 Uhr Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Ok, guys, I'm sorry, but I'm still confused (a congenital condition,
I assure you). Ok, so I'm working on a Fin File, and after a hard
day's work, I wish to back up said file. I insert a black disc in my
new iMac G5, give it a name, and move the file in question to the
disc. I burn it. The next time I try to copy a file (any file) to
same disc, the message instructs that a file can not be moved to this
disc, because the files can not be modified. I have tried this both
with CD-RW and CD R music. I know you have told me this before,
but, as usual, I do not remember the answer. How do I back up files
to a disc and make said disc function more than once?
In advance, I thank you for once again sharing your wisdom.
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