[X4U] dragging files to burn onto disk

[Stroller]

Ah! Of course! I knew something changed around the 10.3 / 10.4 mark.

I did not intend to criticise you with my reply - what is natural &  
normal to one person is hideously obscure to another - merely to  
remark that I'm surprised switchers (of all people!) should have  
problems with the newer interface.

Stroller.



On 11 Jan 2007, at 13:41, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
> ...
> The problem is that Apple changed their method during one of their  
> OS upgrades. I think it was Tiger but I could be wrong. Before,  
> when you inserted a blank CD or DVD the computer created a sort of  
> "temporary partition" for it (I don't know the technical aspect,  
> this is just the way I saw it) If you checked your HD space some of  
> it was missing due to the blank media using it. When you dragged  
> files onto a CD or DVD in the finder they would in fact be copied,  
> in full, to this new partition. Then after you burnt the disk the  
> OS would release the temporary partition and you would have your HD  
> space back. Then Apple changed things and now inserting a blank CD  
> or DVD creates a "burn folder". I see now, after reading the weekly  
> tip, that the files dragged to the disk are Aliases that reference  
> the actual files at the time of burning and that this method is  
> somehow more efficient than the old way. But 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.
> ...
>> CD-burning in Finder (did they add it in 10.3??) has always "just  
>> made sense" to me, and I never thought of the icons on the disk as  
>> being "aliases" but instead "shortcut icons indicating the files  
>> that are going to be burned".
>>
>> In fact the drag-n-drop CD-burning in Windows XP is remarkably  
>> similar to Finder's CD-burning, and I'd expect anyone who has  
>> undertaken that to find OS X's CD-burning seamless. I'm pretty  
>> sure I learned them the other way around (OS X first) myself, but  
>> the only difference in XP is that the icons-indicating-the-files- 
>> that-are-going-to-be-burned are not identical to Windows' shortcut  
>> icons - just very similar.