[muglo] Re: Burning CDs

Hi Paul
Welcome to the Dummies Club ! :-)
Quite coincidentally, I also tried my first attempt at burning CDs 
using Panther on my G5 today - and with equally unsuccessful and 
frustrating results !!!!!

As you say , the Apple Help menu is not Helpful - it kept telling me to 
select the disc image and then burn - but the burn symbol wasn't 
operative !!  Like you , I wasted CDs ending up with nothing on them . 
Why can't they make things simple for us at Apple ?

Replies here suggest buying Toast - yet another expense ? Before you 
do, try reading some of the negative comments on Version tracker like 
this one :

  I have been using Toast for the last 2 and an a half years. Toast 5 
was superb. However, Toast 6 is not happening, and in my opinion a 
rip-off. I am using OSX 10.3.3 and Toast 6.03. I am unable to burn any 
kind of audio CD. Toast causes my computer to freeze! I have a dual 
1.25 GHz G4 dual mirrored powermac with 2GBs of ram! Toast burns my 
data CD's and DVD's fine but not audio CD's. I threw out preferences, 
repaired disk permission, ran disk warrior. I tried to call Roxio but 
they want $35 to make a call to report this possilbe bug. In order to 
call customer service you have to call Canada and pay long distance 
charges! Morevover, email support is only good for 90 days! What is 
Roxio thinking? I will never buy Toast again! However, what application 
does one buy to burn CD's

Maybe we could organize a CD Burning Instruction session soon - to 
initiate us novices into the arcane secrets?

So , indeed ?

>  what application does one buy to burn CD's


Are there other options out there ?  And why can't I do it with the 
multi $ G5 I bought with that in mind ?

Ilbert




On 17 Jul 2004, at 5:02 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> I have just tried burning a CD with dubious results!!  One finished up
> with nothing on it and the other two folders with their contents!   I
> am using OS X (10.3)
>
> I tried to make a copy of some files onto a CD-R disc.  I dragged a
> couple of folders onto the CD Icon.  When I opened the Disc Icon the
> two folders were there.  When I tried to eject the disc, I was asked if
> I wanted to burn it.  Does this mean that when I copied the folders
> onto the CD, they are not actually there until they are burnt?   I
> finally did this and they seemed to be there.  They only occupied a
> small part of the CD.  When I tried to add more files I got a message
> to say the CD could not be modified?  Does this mean that a Cd can only
> be burnt once?  In other words files cannot be added later?  I was
> hoping to use it for backup purposes?  To do this can one use CD-RW
> discs or just use a new disc each time?   As I say this is my first
> attempt and hence the questions - the Mac Help didn't really help that
> much!
>
> Paul
>
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