Is it possible to burn a multi-session CD or CD-RW on an iMac running El Capitan 10.11.1

Hi Guys - almost same topic, though I am trying as I have always had slow or beach balling issues and I think it is just Apple / Mac feature to push for cash and am over it. I have got 500 GB for 4 G or Ram which is good and still the computer is ******* slow.

I am trying to have multi sessions. One for web one for writing one for work etc. However it takes ages and beach ball and my hard drive has already been formated this is beyond crook work on Apple's part. What do I need to do fasten multi sessions? Beside the already slow issue and the fact my hard drive is indeed almost full bearing only a minimum which is super weird.

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Cheers,

F

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I'm not sure you understand what "multi-session" means in the context of this thread. It has to do with burning a CD multiple times. You seem to be discussing a speed issue with your mac.

Slow beach balling is commonly caused by incompatible software or using High Sierra on a slow, rotational hard drive, especially with limited RAM.

You should start your own post asking how to speed up your Mac. You should also post the output of this Program on that post: http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Hi Guys

We are really running the wheel with the little validation from Apple, aren't we?

SO. I am running the obscure EtreCheck that probably only the EU has come up with to slow all us down.

It is beach balling frenzy on my side.

It is weird info from system, once there are no space left, once there are, once there are not once there are etc.

Even though I Cleared the god danm HD when I erased it all the first time because Apple and its people failed me and didn't work properly.

What now? It is weird with Apple I got to apologise even though I paid 2300 Euros a computer which is slower than my old black Mac, I mean "my" it is not really part of me the fact of wasting money and time. Not even sure PC is right for me.

Remember I am self employed and in France it means no water or food for months.

F

What software are you using to burn the disc?

Roxio Toast can burn multi-session discs.

iDVD and maybe some of the other third party freeware disc burning apps can't.

Since new iMacs no longer ship with a built-in optical drive, and Apple did away with iDVD maybe Apple didi away with a lot of optical disc burning functionality?

I never upgraded to Yosemite, did Yosemite do away with burning multi-seasion CDs/DVDs, too?

Toast has the advantage that if you do not have iDVD, for making custom DVD menus, Toast has its own set of custom DVD menus, too!

Plus, with new versions of Toast and a Blu-Ray reading and writing drive, you can create Blu-Ray content, as well as standard CD and DVD content.

If you own a Mac, then $99 for the non-Blu-Ray version isn't a big expense for DVD authoring software if you create a lot videos or audio discs or you do a lot of disc burning for different uses and applications, like for archiving.

I like Toast better for creating archival discs than using Apple's own disc burning options.

My opinion here, for what its worth.

This works pretty well: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

You can burn from the contextual menu in Finder, but unless that dialog offers the ability to leave the disk appendable, the only other way would to learn how to do it with the command line utility. The capability still exists in the unix underpinnings, but the GUI in Disk Utility doesn't offer any Optical capability.

It does work on El Capitan, but I can't remember if I ever tried to burn multi-session. No reason it shouldn't.

Another disc burning utility that can burn multiple sessions under El Capitan is Disco:

http://www.discoapp.com/

However, like Burn, it's been discontinued. The last version seems to have been 1.0.3, dated Feb 2008, but its website says development was stopped July 2011. I think it originally cost $25, but the developers released it as a free utility when they stopped developing it. It has a nice, very simple interface, but it's got some decent options, so it might be fine for most people. The options for burning multiple sessions are in Disco's preferences window.

And yet another utility that can burn multiple sessions is X-CD-Roast:

http://alternativeto.net/software/x-cd-roast/?platform=mac

I haven't tried X-CD-Roast, but its description at the link I provided says it "tries to be the most flexible CD-burning software ever".

I wish Apple Discussions would let you edit a comment for longer than about five minutes, or else I'd have removed the mention of X-CD-Roast from my comment above. I just looked at its home page, and it's not worth considering: its development was stopped in 2004, and it's an Open Source project whose developer did only limited testing on OS X, with no info in its readme file on testing past OS 10.3, and it doesn't install as an app with a graphical user interface, but rather as a Unix executable at /usr/local/bin/xcdroast, and so it requires the user to issue commands through Terminal, so it's probably not useful for very many people. It's also accompanied by a couple Applescript apps for launching it in X11, but these script apps work only on PPC Macs, or Intel Macs running an old version of OS X that supports Classic mode, so the main X-CD-Roast utility itself may not work properly with El Capitan either. But for what it's worth (if nothing else, for people running older versions of OS X, I guess), here's the link to download the Mac version (the link I provided in my first comment just brings you to a commercial software repository that contains a description of it):

http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html

Though the description at the home page of the link I provided above says X-CD-Roast "tries to be the most flexible CD-burning software ever", that might have been partly true in 2004, but newer, simpler GUI utilities are more suitable for most people.