As others have said, Toast is a much easier to use tool for CD/DVD creation. However, the Finder can do a very competent job of it if your needs are simple. Here's the right way to do it:
- In the Finder, select "File->New Burn Folder". It will create a folder with the yellow/black burn symbol on it named "Burn Folder.fpbf" on your desktop. - Rename the folder to the name you want your DVD to have, eg: "Photos-20080316.fpbf" - Holding the option key down, select "File->Show Inspector". The Inspector differs from the Info panel in that it is persistent and dynamic: it shows information about each item dynamically as you click on them. As you shift-click on items to include onto the DVD, it will reflect the total size of the items together. - Drag and drop the items onto the burn folder that was created. They will be placed on the burn folder as aliases. If you open the folder and click the Burn button in the upper right, WITHOUT having a blank DVD-R media installed, it will tell you how large a DVD-R media you are going to need to write the burn folder. - A typical single-layer DVD-R will hold approximately 4.7 Gbytes of data, but be sure you get the ones that state that capacity on the packaging. I never buy media from Apple; I get it at Fry's, CostCo, Best Buy, or whereever. - Insert a blank DVD-R media with the appropriate capacity. Now click the Burn button on the burn folder and the Finder will burn and verify the DVD for you, name it appropriately. It creates a fully Mac OS X and Windows compliant, single session DVD data volume. (If you wish to get fancier, you can use Disk Utility in the / Applications/Utilities folder to create multi-session DVD-Rs too.) But I also advise using Toast. It does an excellent job. Godfrey On Mar 16, 2008, at 1:34 PM, 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. > > 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? > > 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 > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
