hi how to select files in different folders for compilation in the data disk for burning process? Quite often I can select the folders but not the different files. please advise me. thanks. golden ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Matzura <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Nero or Nero Express > As helpful as the wizards are, I rarely use them, except when doing > training in order to show someone what a wizard is for and what it can > do. I'd rather know my options and how to set them properly for each > kind of CD I want to make rather than go through those silly wizard > programs. I guess you can see, of the three (Nero, CDRWin and Easy CD > Creator), I do like Nero the best, and it's about the most > price-competitive and comes with the last amount of extra (mostly > inaccessible and useless) software of all of them if you buy any of > the packages. > > Now, I have a question about compiling a data CD with Nero. This may > be a JAWS issue, it may be a Steve issue, I don't know which it is. > Let me explain. > > When making a data CD, unlike Easy CD Creator where you can initialize > a CD and copy files to it with Windows Explorer until it's full, then > finish or finalize the disc, Nero uses a disc-at-once technique for > burning its discs, so you have to create the list of pointers to the > files you want copied onto the CD in a list view. This list view has > potentially three sides in two panels. The first panel actually > contains two lists--top-level folders, and one-level-down folders. > If, for instance, you were building a project to burn a CD of MP3 > files, for instance, your top-level folders might be group names, and > your second-level (one-level-down) folders could be albums within the > groups. The third side of this display is the file browser where you > choose files or folders to be copied at burn time, which you do by > CTRL/TAB-ing back and forth between the two sides of the screen, > finding what you want in the tree view, and using standard Windows > commands like copy and paste to copy your selection(s) to the disc > compilation side of the window. That's fine for top-level stuff. > I've discovered, though, that unless your focus is at the top of the > tree, on the label name of your new disc, when you paste something > from the file browser side of the window into your compilation, it > always goes *UNDER* (as in the next level down from) where you are > focused, and sometimes goes to unpredictable places. For instance, if > you already have three folders at the topmost level, and you arrow > down once and paste something in, it doesn't always go underneath the > first folder. Sometimes it goes underneath the last one! I think > what you have to do is to TAB to the next level down and then paste to > be sure you get it where you really want it. > > Another hard one is, what if, two or three levels down, you want to do > some browsing or editing of the contents of your compilation? I > haven't figured out a way to go down past the second level of > directory structure. So if I paste in an artist at level 1 and an > album at level 2 and decide there are some songs from that album I > don't want, I can't figure out how to get down to level 3 to see that > list and edit it. > > Other than that, I'm thoroughly enamored with Nero, although all of > these programs essentially do the same thing, just the look and feel > are different. Their prices are pretty close, too, for which I also > like a lot. It gives us all lots of choices. > > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.