Spanning Data Disc--help

[jstaff]

I just purchased Toast 9 yesterday so I could use the disc spanning feature. I had a project that needed to span over 10 discs. The project got through to disc 7 and then my computer crashed. Is there any way to just burn disc 7 through 10? Toast takes me back to disc 1.

 

Before buying Toast 9, I used an old version of Toast Lite and just manually copied files over in sections to the discs. I thought that using the spanning feature would save me time. It seems like each disc takes much longer to burn (It took hours to get through the 7 discs last night). Any advice into helping me recover the last session or steamline this process would be greatly appreciated. If not, I might be back to Toast Lite.

[tsantee]

When the Mac crashed there was no way for Toast to retain track of what had already been burned. You could use the bundled DiscCatalogMaker RE to create a catalog of the 7 discs you burned. Then compare that catalog with the Folders you added to the Toast Data window. Delete the ones from the Toast window that are in the catalog and burn the rest to a new series of spanned discs.

 

It shouldn't have taken any longer to burn the spanned discs than normal data burning, except that it always go through verification.

 

I recommend downloading rember and doing an extensive test of your Mac's RAM to see if the reason for the crash is that Toast accessed a defective part of RAM.

[jstaff]

Thanks. I didn't think to use the catalog to view the files. That will save me time figuring out what still needs to be burned.

 

I was hoping that there was a way that Toast could save the session in a way that shows the spanned discs in sections, so recovering something like this would be easier. I tried saving the session and writing a disc image, hoping it would save it into the spanned sections, but it just made one big file. I think a feature like this would be very useful.

[tsantee]

Thanks. I didn't think to use the catalog to view the files. That will save me time figuring out what still needs to be burned.

 

I was hoping that there was a way that Toast could save the session in a way that shows the spanned discs in sections, so recovering something like this would be easier. I tried saving the session and writing a disc image, hoping it would save it into the spanned sections, but it just made one big file. I think a feature like this would be very useful.

That would be a good feature. I believe they added in Toast 9 the ability to stop a disc spanning session and then restart it. But that requires Toast to control when it stops rather than have it abruptly aborted.