On 3/16/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Not free, bundled. Bundled copies of Toast work just as well on Macs. > > > 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. > Except that the Apple software in question is no worse than the software that's built into windows. 3rd party solutions are far better and will get you around 4.3GB onto a DVD-R on either platform. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
