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.
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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
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