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[kiodane]

I have a very large amount of data that I was hoping that spanning would ease the burn process, but Toast seemed to crash after the progress bar froze.  I noticed that a disc with 5 minutes burn time remaining didn't finish by 20 minutes past.  Activity monitor did not report that Toast was not responding, but I chose to force quit it anyway since no progress had been made.

After a restart and ejecting the failed disc, I noticed that there are no obvious options to finish a spanned disc set after a crash or other stop in the process.  This concerns me, being that my total project was expected to take the better of 30 discs.  This seems a terrible situation for someone who would desire to pause and return at a later date, which is where I find myself.  I've looked at the contents of the first third of the set, and it seems that I won't have to redo them even if I changed to making the rest of the discs individually and giving up the possible disc space optimization that spanning is.

But I don't want to start again and make individual toast files for the remaining eight-teen discs.  I'd rather shut my computer down, run some diagnostics, make any repairs, and continue at disc nine rather than disc one.  Even if I removed the portion of the toast listing that makes up the existing successful discs, the index provided and disc titles would have skewed numbers.

I'm desperate for a complete answer because I would like to remove this unnecessary drain on my hard disc space since archival would be the better answer.  I don't look forward to one line answers of "sorry, it don't work that way" although I am incapable of stopping the possibility of that truth.  In that case, I will add the "get used to it" myself since there's no arguing with what expectations are made for larger software companies or their ability to listen to simple feature requests.

-Mike

[fingerman]

Are you using v7.0.2 of Toast?.. that version added some logic to gracefully handle a failed disc during spanning... where you would be prompted to re-burn that disc in the set instead of having to start again at the beginning of the set.

[jordan314]

That's great that they thought of prompting the user to reburn now during disc spanning, but what about those of us with unfinished disc collections?
I downloaded the update now, but I still have TWO discs that failed during my spanning. I have 45 gigs of data and burned 9 out of 11 DVDs! I just need to burn disc 4 and disc 8, but toast won't let me do that without burning everything again! I've wasted so many DVDs and time on this project now.

fingerman, on Feb 4 2006, 04:25 PM, said:

Are you using v7.0.2 of Toast?.. that version added some logic to gracefully handle a failed disc during spanning... where you would be prompted to re-burn that disc in the set instead of having to start again at the beginning of the set.