Rick Womer wrote: > 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. > Yes, yes they are. > 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. > Sad because the free Nero software that came with my no name 16x burner for Windows tells me exactly how much space I have left on a burn. > Why can't those clever people at Apple give me a > running total as I drag things into the window? > See my comment above. > And why does a 4.7 gig genuine Apple DVD-R hold only > 3.4 gig? > Because you bought Apple and are therefor locked into them, they own you body and soul. So in short, because they can. > Rick > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > >
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