Combining DVD and CDR?

[John Lega]

I am about to backup some images to DVD-R's. I will need 5 DVD to do so, but my last disk (disk 5) only will take up 650 megs. Can I use a regular CDR for my last disc so as not to waste and entire DVD?

If I do have to use a DVD for all discs, can I then add to disc 5 on my next backup?

Thanks,

John Lega

[MichaelT]

John,

No the Archive Session is either DVD or CD. It cannot be mixed for a number of technical reasons.

My suggestion would be to use a DV-RW for the Last disc, and then also include the files from disc 5 in your next archive set. So temporarily they would be on the RW, and then in the next set. But of course the Index will include the disc 5 files so that could get confusing.

Alternately you could reduce the set to 4 discs, and include the other files in the next Archive set.

Other than that, it may pay to just use the real DVD-R for disc 5 to have the archive set that you want.

You would have to look in the tree in the process page (or in the index) to see where the disc 5 began and start the next archive with those files from you HD.

Sorry there is no perfect solution.

[John Lega]

Michael,

Thanks for the quick response. You offer some good suggestions. It may not be a "perfect solution" but it's the closest I've seen to it.

Thanks for the program and the wonderful support.

Regards,

John

[MichaelT]

Happy to help..and thanks for the kind words..