[X4U] dragging files to burn onto disk

Mark Des Cotes mark at astroprinting.com
Thu Jan 11 07:29:55 PST 2007


I totally agree. I just wish I had figured the whole thing out long  
ago. It could have saved me a lot of time and wasted disks for nothing.

Mark Des Cotes
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On 11-Jan-07, at 10:01 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> At 8:41 AM -0500 1/11/07, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>
>> ut for someone like me who's been burning disks on Mac since OS 8,  
>> if not earlier, it was strange to see Aliases added when I dragged  
>> my files over. As I stated in my first post, if you hold the  
>> Option key while dragging your files over they do in fact get  
>> copied to the burn folder. I don't know if that compromises the  
>> efficiency or not.
>
> Well, it's certainly faster to make a pointer rather than copying  
> files. Once it burns, it takes the same amount of time, of course.  
> But the preparing is much quicker, isn't it?
>
> Daly
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