Thanks much. Actually I'm doing Time Machine and superduper though I'm a little leery of Time Machine now because last time i wanted to restore it cranked away for a few hours and then announced it couldn't restore from that backup. But I'd also like some backups that are something other than external drives. I know iTunes will spread a playlist over multiple cds but I'm not so sure about what happens if you try this from finder. But you are right: I can find out for the price of one lone dvd.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > So if you have everything you want to burn in a folder, what happens if you > pick that folder and then choose Burn To Disk from the file menu? It's been a > long time since I used CDs or DVDs for backups but I vaguely recall that it > would spread what you've got over multiple disks. Worth a shot. At worst you > waste one piece of media finding out. If you're interested there are unixy > ways to compress everything into one big file and then split it into chunks > that fit whatever size media you are using. At some point though your time > might be more valuable than the cost of media and you should just do time > machine to some external storage. I found an external USB 500GB drive here > for $50: > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/836243-REG/Hitachi_0S03452_500GB_Touro_Mobile_USB.html > > That starts encroaching on the media cost of a few spindles of DVDs, not to > mention avoiding a lot of hassle. > > CB > > On 11/28/12 11:19 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> It has been quite a while since i did backups to dvd of a lot of my media >> files and also various document files so I have decided to do a complete new >> set. In the past I have kept the text and document files separate from the >> media files and have figured out which files can fit for each dvd and then I >> have run the burn. None of these files are in iTunes. I want to know if >> there is either a way on the Mac or an accessible program I can get to >> automate this process as far as filling up dvds. In other words, I'd like to >> be able to pick out the folders and files I want to burn and then I'd like >> to be able to start the burn and have the first dvd fill up and then be told >> to insert another dvd to continue instead of having to figure out the >> logistics of each dvd myself. Is there a way to do this? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, Lord, >> my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
