On 5 Sep 2005 at 14:42, Darcy James Argue wrote: > If you're going to back up files one at a time, then get an external > FW or USB 2 hard drive. CD-R is only really useful if you're going > to back up 650-700 MB of data at once. CD-RW requires third-party > software to rewrite without wiping the disk first, and for the price > of, e.g., Toast, you can get a decent-sized external HD.
This advice is only really valid for Mac. On Windows, there is no real issue with multiple-session CD-R/RW (except for the problems of WinXP with XCOPY). How you manage it depends on the exact 3rd-party CD writing software installed on your computer, but I have never seen a Windows PC where you couldn't drag and drop files in Windows Explorer from your hard drive to a CD-R/RW (except for the case of one WinXP computer where the CD-R/RW drive was appearing twice in Windows Explorer). I do multi-session CD-Rs as a matter of course -- it's my normal approache to creating them. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
