Very good info ... thank you.
Dean
On Sep 5, 2005, at 2:24 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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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