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[hlheavyd]

Hello Everyone,

Got a question for you all, maybe a bug i dont know.. Ive been using toast for some time now.. and ive been using the Disc Spanning Feature which is so nice to have.. no more making 4.38GB folder and burning them

To my Question... When i burn, lets say, 40 gb offline.. T7 tells me its going to take 10 Dvd's. I burn them all with no problem.. Well i just opserved the other day That T7 is not using all the space available on the dvd.

Disc 1 would be 3.9GB
Disc 2  4.2GB
Disc 3  3.8GB
Disc 4  3.7GB
Disc 5  4.1GB

etc etc etc..

Im Backing up rather large files also..

So why isnt toast Using the entire disc space available?

i Ask, because after a while, its like throwing away 10 or so dvds out of a 100 pack

TY
Brad

[hlheavyd]

hey everyone..

posted the above 5 days ago.. lots of looks, but no replys.. anyone have any advice?

[hlheavyd]

ive read around, and havent seen anything... anyone have any ideas?

thanks

[easternherp]

hlheavyd, on Mar 13 2006, 08:59 PM, said:

ive read around, and havent seen anything... anyone have any ideas?

thanks

I haven't tried any disc spanning yet but I guess Toast is not splitting any files up and has worked out that the toatal you want to burn wont fit on less cd's by splitting so doesn't bother and spreads them evenly. Just a thought.

[debit72]

This would add an extra step to you process but you could try using StuffIt (if you have it) to create one big .sitx file containing everything you want to burn, then try spanning. Toast would be forced to split the file ... perhaps it would do so in a more space-conservative way ...

If you don't have StuffIt, you could maybe use the OS's internal Create Archive function (control click) -- put everything you want to burn in a single folder and then archive the folder to a single .zip file.

Be warned ... both those processes will compress your data, so 40 GB of compression will take some time. I would recommend a test ... create a smaller archive set that would only span 2 DVDs, and run it to disk image instead of real disks.

BTW, I have no idea if this would really work; haven't tried it myself ...

Edited by debit72, 05 April 2006 - 09:44 AM.

[John at Roxio]

Yeah, I agree with Easternherp.  And i have not tried spanning discs either but I had similar results way back in the day spanning floppy discs with other applications.  It wont break 1 file into several parts so if it sees that it cant fit the rest of the file on the disc, it will just put it on the next disc.  You would get better results if you had many more smaller files, it would be more efficient.

Again, its just a guess, but I am thinking that the results clearly speak for themselves.

[easternherp]

Another way of doing it compared to debit72 would be to create one big Disk image out of all the files. Now toast would have to split the file instead. This way would be slightly quicker than using stuffit as you wouldn't have to compress the files.