![]() ![]() AS LONG AS YOU ATTRIBUTE MY WORK LIKE THIS (Ivan Chew, ), you are FREE to COPY, SHARE, MODIFY, or SELL (yes, SELL!) content from this blog. Unless otherwise stated, all works by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License. Why Apple does not have a similar feature as a part of OSX5 is, charitably put, incomprehensible. It is extremely easy, nearly automatic to burn a file or a folder on the PC (which has both Roxio and Nero installed). I am an Apple and PC owner and have them networked. Then follow the rest of the sequence and you will in fact be burning files and folders and not aliases. Copy your files and folders to it and check to make sure they have not become aliases. To avoid this result, create a Burn Folder by using the New Folder feature and not the New Burn Folder feature. I should have checked the contents of the Burn folder.fpbf folder because if I had I would have seen the telltale little arrow on each of the icons, revealing their nature as aliases only. You can go through the entire sequence, obtain a message telling you that you have successfully burnt, but when you then have a look at the CD, to test whether the folders/files have been in fact burnt, you will find that they have not: only aliases will be there. You would normally want to copy to this folder all the folders and files you want to burn on the CD. If you use, in Finder, File>New Burn Folder or if you use the same feature under the gearwheel in Finder, create a Burn folder thereunder, you will get something that is called Burnfolder.fpdf. Since you cannot burn a file directly to a CD, the workaround is to create a Burn Folder and this is where the problem lies. Those features are obvious invitations to their use when attempting to burn a file to a CD. The other is the appearance, in the course of following the sequence of steps required to initiate the burn, of a notation : “Untitled CD” at the bottom of the LH pane in Finder. One is the feature which enables one to create a Burn Folder.fbpf. There are two misleading features in Finder. There is, however, one missing item, which caused me hours of frustration. This was very helpful inasmuch as whatever else there is in the published Knowledge Base of Apple does not even come close to solving the problem and is applicable to OSX4 only, not OSX5, therefore requiring some imaginative adaptation to make sense of it when working with OSX5. IMPORTANT - Remember to select “Leave disc appendable” before clicking Append. The difference is that now you see the “Append” button instead of “Burn”. When you reach step 7 and insert the previously recorded disk, you will see this dialog box. Then click “Burn”.Ĩ) Wait while the files are being copied to the CD/ DVD.ĩ) Follow steps 1 to 8 the next time you want to copy to the disk. ![]() IMPORTANT – select “Leave disc appendable” if you want multisession burning later on. If this is a brand new disk, you will see this dialog box. Select the image from the Disk Utility window and click the “Burn” icon.ħ) Insert the CD/ DVD. Click on “Save”.ĥ) Wait while the Image (.dmg file) is being created.Ħ) Once the image is created, you’ll see this screen. Each time you want to copy the file, you might want to create a new folder and place the file in that folder.Ĥ) IMPORTANT STEP: Select “read/ write” for Image Format (if not, the CD or DVD will be closed). NOTE: Only folders can be copied, not individual files. Look in the “Applications” -> Utilities folderĢ) Create a new Image: File -> New -> Disk Image from Folderģ) Select the folder with the files to be copied, then click on the “Image” button. ![]() See discussion in the comments section below.Ĭlick on images to see larger-sized pictures:ġ) Find and start the Disk Utility application. Update, 1 Sept 06: The steps below work only for CDs, but not for DVDs. ![]()
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