Getting help answers seems to take forever on the Self Service area.

Problem: How are additionalfiles added to a disc? I did a trial and an update to replace it so I could understand how this program works. The trial was burned. I clicked to "remove"it. Then I tried to add the replacement , and all I kept getting were statements to "erase the disc", and thinking the "removal" was only in the listing and not on the disc, I said yes.

The update was later dropped in and "burn" clicked. Disc was stated as "appendable", but up pops dialogue that the disc is not "blank--want to erase" again. THis is crazy. I need this program to be able to add new material at different times without erasing what preceeded it. THis was so easy to do in RecordNow5 and extremely frustrating in 8. Just what am I missing please?

Confusing too: why is what is burned needed to be saved somewhere else? Isn't that the purpose of the disc?Shouldn't it just be read and opened from there?
What is the "disc writing wizard" that showed up and where does that fit in the scheme of things?

I'd appreciate those who find this software so satisfactory to give me some clues to burning files so I can feel the same way. Hope that's possible........ and thanks very much!

If disc says it's appendable then before you add more data you need to import the previous session first.

There wasn't supposed to be anything else on the disc--it was erased! And just where do I "import the previous session" from if this wasn't the case? I don't understand that at all.......

Your question was "how are additional files added to a disc".I took this to mean that you had files on the disc already and were trying to add more.To do this in Creator Classic you create the first session of files and burn.When you burn you make sure you uncheck Read-Only under advanced options.When you go to add files you then import the previous session before you add the new files.
Have a look in the help files under "add data to an appendable disc".

You seem to be looking for a "great-big floppy-disc". But, floppies work via magneticly setting the 0's and 1's.

Optical media has pits and lands, the physical equivilant of 0's and 1's. If you are working with RW media, an alluminum alloy is melted and recrystalized to form the 0's and 1's. (BTW - this alloy promtly starts to de-crystalize, taking the data with it. Using RW media is a great way to permantly LOSE the information.)

The computer reads both R and RW media the same way as it would read a commercially pressed disc. It is complete, finished, unchangeable. If you delete a file, you do NOT get space back, as you would for a floppy disc. You merely erase it from the TOC [Table of Contents] so you can't find it.

The only exception is that a RW disc can be COMPLETELY erased - making it useful for testing, or for transferring files when the original is still safely on the computer.

If you want a "great-big floppy-disc", you might be better off with a Flash drive (aka Jump / Thumb / Pen / Keychain drive).

Even if you want optical media to be what you want to believe it is, it actually is what it actually is, sorry.

Lynn