[garetjax]

Hi,

I'm new to Macs and CD burning. Using a Sony 1600 CDRW firewire 12x8x32 and Toast Titanium 5.1. Powerbook 500 G3 firewire.

How do I delete individual files from a CDRW that I just created using Toast? Are you able to do this without erasing the whole CD?

Can you somehow drag and drop files to and from this CD fairly easily? Can I hook the CDRW to a PC and do the same thing with the CD I created with Toast?

Would appreciate any advice.

[fulmer]

toast lets you create pc-compatible discs.

as far as cd-rw erasure, you could try mounting the cd-rw, drag certain files to the trash, then eject the cd. maybe the finder will delete those files.

cd-rw is so cheap that I use them most of the time and don't worry if I need to trash 'em. I just don't want to wait for a cd-rw to burn (if I'm filling to even half capacity)--it goes at 10x on my burner, while cd-r burns at 24x.

[er1c]

I use same setup and want to ask, why you want to do this? And also, are you in a particular hurry? If you are doing backups, then use a utility program and set it up to make incremental backups.

If you need space on the CD, you can copy files to a folder on HD, erase CD and put back the files you need, tossing the others. This takes a few minutes but with Titanium you can burn in the background and do other work/play while the disc writes, so it's not an issue generally. Does this help?

Best regards
<font color = red> er1c</font>

[garetjax]

Originally posted by er1c:
<STRONG>I use same setup and want to ask, why you want to do this? And also, are you in a particular hurry? If you are doing backups, then use a utility program and set it up to make incremental backups.

If you need space on the CD, you can copy files to a folder on HD, erase CD and put back the files you need, tossing the others. This takes a few minutes but with Titanium you can burn in the background and do other work/play while the disc writes, so it's not an issue generally. Does this help?

Best regards
<font color = red> er1c</font></STRONG>

The reason I'm asking is that I used to have a CDRW that I created using Adaptec Easy CD creator (windoze). I used it like a lightweight portable 650 mb storage device, freely adding and deleting individual files when it got full. I would think that you could also do this with Toast, since Roxio took over adaptec, but I haven't found a way to do this on my powerbook (mainly deleting individual files from the CDRW). I mean you should be able to do this with a CD-RW, right? That's what makes it different from a CD-R. Every time I drag a file to trash I get a error message which says I don't have the privilege to do this or something like that. If you could do this on a windows based software I'm sure there is a way for this to be done on a Mac with toast. Being new to Macs and toast, I'm wondering if I'm just missing something obvious.

Thanks for the advice so far.

[PatGmac]

You can't delete individual files. Neither can Easy CD Creator. Chances are, you were using DirectCD (also from Adaptec/Roxio)to do packet writing which is also available for OS 9 (and earlier) but is outdated. Using Toast you will have to erase the whole cd or add another session.

BTW, Roxio didn't take over Adaptec. Roxio is the software division of Adaptec.