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fotojoe - Feb 17, 2007 - 9:48 pm

How can I burn more than one session on a CD-RW or DVD-RW?

If I have to format the disc to do this, where do I go to format it?

philippe99 - Feb 18, 2007 - 7:31 am

Hi and welcome to macosx.com

(1) about multisession burning technique
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...urn_tiger.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...n/duh1749.html
http://myrightbrain.wordpress.com/20...with-mac-os-x/

Other commercial or free burning tools offer the same capabilities than DiskUtility, sometimes in a more elegant and friendly way (Toast, Disco, ..)

(2) about erasing CD-RW
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61300
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/D...ingCD-RWs.html
DU performs a complete erase, while some other tolls (Toast,..) can performed a quick erase which requires that the tool whihc has erased the drive will be use for the next burning on the erased media

Thers is no way to erase a single session among the whole set of multisessions

(3) You cannot burned multisessions on DVDs

(4) Beside DU, BurnXFree (http://www.hernansoft.com/products.html) is on the best free tool for burning multisessions

Regards
Philippe

fotojoe - Feb 18, 2007 - 8:47 am

Thanks. I will check these out. I must say I am dissapointed that I can't burn multiple sessions since I paid an addtional $200 to get the super drive just for that single reason.

i do have an Iomega burner that will let me do that; I was trying to avoid hooking up another periphial.

Another is a list of "can't do's" for the Mac.

philippe99 - Feb 18, 2007 - 11:33 am

Well, not on DVD but yes on CD

The big danger of multisessions disc is taht, if the burning of a session fails for any reason, all the previous burned sessions are gone !!

So..
* less than 400MB -> on an USB flash drive
* above, I burn CDRs or DVDrs

With the so little price of single CDRs or DVDRs, I never burn any multisession discs in my life..

Phil

fotojoe - Feb 20, 2007 - 5:08 pm

Thanks for the suggestions.

philippe99 - Feb 21, 2007 - 7:20 am

Good luck in your future burnings and thank you for using macosx.com.

Regards
Philippe