[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Victoria L. Herring]

>	I need to do a rather massive burning job [moving photo
>images from CD to harddrive then burning to archival DVDs] and in the
>past I've had trouble using the OSX Burn feature [so far tho that is
>all I've needed] but do have Toast 6 and seem to recall that that
>program would allow moving the images all from CD to the harddrive
>and then burning them to the DVDs en masse, where it would stop at
>the end of the DVD space and ask for another DVD to be put in....is
>that right or is there a better program?  I'd like to streamline the
>process as much as possible so I don't need to watch over it as it
>goes along.

One person did suggest an easy answer, which might be to just copy 
over X CDs into folder and then burn the folder onto DVDs since 
they'd be about right size in bulk.  But on thinking this through, 
that's not going to accomplish what I want to accomplish.

I have about 80 CDs and DVDs nonarchival in nature of photos that i 
want to put on Archival disks.  But the complicating problem is that 
amongst those are 8-9 duplicate sets = being so cautious over time I 
have backed up or copied Picture X some 8-9 times, so that what I do 
want to do is some cleaning out and cleansing...I can use TidyUp or 
other programs to find dups and then delete some and THEN do the 
backing up to archival, but the same Q then presents itself, how can 
I put all the to-be-burned items in one folder and then have a 
program know enough to fill up ARchival disk 1 and then call for Disk 
2 and then 3 etc = so that I don't have to guess at how many photos 
it will take to fill up one?  Some pics are going to be 1mb and some 
40mb, depending, so I can't just assume it'll take so many pics to do 
this.

I thought Toast allowed you to just put all stuff in its window and 
it'd burn what it needed to on Disk 1 and then call out for Disk 2, 
but I tried that recently and it didn't work.  Maybe I did it wrong, 
maybe it needs Toast 7...is there any other program?  OSX Burn 
doesn't do it....as far as I know.
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