CD-RW on Mac OSX Tiger

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CD-RW on Mac OSX Tiger

Ok so, on an older eMac I used to own I was able to just drag files on a CD-R that I inserted and opened up with Finder. I didn't have to burn the disc, and even though it was a CD-R i was able to delete files in the CD and add new files. My mac was running on 10.2.8 I believe, but I never tried using a CD-RW. I'm not sure why it let me do that. Now I have an iMac G5 running the latest OSX tiger 10.4.7. Now if I have a CD-R i have to burn the CD before ejecting it, why can't I just drag files there, and even if I cant change what I did is there anyway that I can just drag things in there and eject it right away without having to burn it which takes a while? I never used a CD-RW on this computer either, how does that work?

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jul 28, 2006 3:37 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 28, 2006 5:43 PM in response to Razvan Zamfir

Burning is the actual process of writing to the disc, if you don't burn, nothing is written and the disc remains blank. The old process just created a temporary image (on the hard disk) in preparation for writing, but the CD-R/RW would've remained blank until you elected to burn it.

The new method in Tiger is similar, except that instead of copying the files to a temporary image, it copies aliases of them to a burn folder until you elect to burn the disc.

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Answer 2

Dr. Smoke

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Jul 29, 2006 1:36 PM in response to Razvan Zamfir

Hi, Razvan.

In addition to Mike's comments, see also "Mac OS X 10.4: About improved disc burning and Burn Folders."

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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