[teacher24_70]

There's a program called BurnAgain DVD that is described as the following:
" BurnAgain DVD lets you use your CDs almost like a harddisk. It simply adds files to CDR,CDRW and DVD+RW several times without creating multiple volumes and without erasing the disk in a platform independent way. If items already on the disk are burned again, BurnAgain DVD automatically evaluates the changes and adds only new or changed files to the disk. BurnAgain DVD allows to change the title of the disk at each burn, hiding of previously burned files and preserves all HFS specific attributes (resource forks) during burn. This makes BurnAgain DVD a absolutely unique application on the Mac."

Are all of these things possible with Toast? Which things are possible and which things are not possible?

[tsantee]

There's a program called BurnAgain DVD that is described as the following:
" BurnAgain DVD lets you use your CDs almost like a harddisk. It simply adds files to CDR,CDRW and DVD+RW several times without creating multiple volumes and without erasing the disk in a platform independent way. If items already on the disk are burned again, BurnAgain DVD automatically evaluates the changes and adds only new or changed files to the disk. BurnAgain DVD allows to change the title of the disk at each burn, hiding of previously burned files and preserves all HFS specific attributes (resource forks) during burn. This makes BurnAgain DVD a absolutely unique application on the Mac."

Are all of these things possible with Toast? Which things are possible and which things are not possible?

This is not possible with Toast. Multi-session DVDs are not supported by the Mac OS so Toast won't write them. Multi-session CDs are supported but not using packet writing which is what's described in your post. I know that Retrospect does packet writing to CDs and DVDs but it uses its own file system that requires accessing any burned data from within Retrospect. A Retrospect disc cannot be read by the Finder.

I don't know about BurnAgain DVD and how it works. But rather than fuss with something that the Mac OS doesn't normally support you might consider using a flash drive for this purpose. When the drive is full you can copy it to DVD-RW or DVD-R and then clear the flash drive.

What's exciting is Toast 8's Dynamic Writing for Blu-Ray rewritable discs. It treats the disc just like a hard drive. Given the capacity of those discs this will be a wonderful capability when the drive and media prices get to a point I can afford.

This post has been edited by tsantee: 09 April 2007 - 06:31 PM

[teacher24_70]

Thanks for letting me know. I figured that it probably wouldn't allow the replacement of modified documents, and I was unsure whether it would adding information within the same "session" icon, but I was hoping that it would at least allow multi-session, multi-icon burns.

Sometimes I need to backup more than will fit on my current flashdrives, but not enough to fill the DVD. It would be nice to be able to keep adding more until the DVD is full.

Maybe Leopard will support this!

This is not possible with Toast. Multi-session DVDs are not supported by the Mac OS so Toast won't write them. Multi-session CDs are supported but not using packet writing which is what's described in your post. I know that Retrospect does packet writing to CDs and DVDs but it uses its own file system that requires accessing any burned data from within Retrospect. A Retrospect disc cannot be read by the Finder.

I don't know about BurnAgain DVD and how it works. But rather than fuss with something that the Mac OS doesn't normally support you might consider using a flash drive for this purpose. When the drive is full you can copy it to DVD-RW or DVD-R and then clear the flash drive.

What's exciting is Toast 8's Dynamic Writing for Blu-Ray rewritable discs. It treats the disc just like a hard drive. Given the capacity of those discs this will be a wonderful capability when the drive and media prices get to a point I can afford.