On Mar 16, 2008, at 15:34, Rick Womer wrote: > A bigger annoyance is that one cannot tell reliably > whether the stuff one drags into the burning window is > going to fit on the disk. I use "get info" to find > the sizes of all the folders, add things up, drag a > combination of folders into the window that comes to > about 3.4 gig, click "Burn", and more often than not > get a box saying I need to remove something. > > Why can't those clever people at Apple give me a > running total as I drag things into the window? > > And why does a 4.7 gig genuine Apple DVD-R hold only > 3.4 gig? >
Shouldn't be this way, really. I HIGHLY recommend Roxio's "Toast Titanium" - it DOES give you a running total, and even has the option to span multiple disks if what you've dragged in there is too much to fit onto one (as a matter of fact, I can't see how to turn spanning OFF but it does say "this will take 2 DVDs" and then I know to remove some stuff). Can't remember what it costs, but it makes things so much simpler it's worth it. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
