Hi there Steve, yes if you want to just copy things to a cd that's like a extra drive, then you need to install disk at once. also if you want to copy the hi lighted file across to the compilation window just press control 1 on the typing keys no need to copy and paste Regards Chris Cant. At 06:59 19/11/2003, you wrote: >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. Regards Chris Cant. For garden benches and garden accessories visit Second Sight at http://www.secondsight.karoo.net email me at chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ring me on 01482564199 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.