> > From: Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've spent a few joyful hours this weekend burning > DVDs of my 2007 photos, since my pathetic little > backup hard disk is full. > > Coasters that take an hour to burn are an annoyance. > > 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?
I am astonished. Even over a decade ago, PC software did what you want and my nine year old machine takes about 40 minutes to write a DVD - because I don't write at the fastest possible speed. Admittedly the burner is only a year old. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- 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.
