Writing files to CD

[Guest]

When I copy files to a CD, I drag them from a folder directly to the CD. It
writes them to the CD just fine. But after that, it saves all those files and
will not allow me to delete them. It says they are waiting to be written to
the CD. I click on them, hit delete and it will give me an error that it
can't be deleted because it's being used by another person or program. This
is with no programs running, and I'm not on a network. It's so frustrating!
Then, the next time I want to burn a CD, those other files are still there
and they get burned to the CD too. Any ideas? I'm at a loss!!

 

[Guest]

maybe the program you are using has a burn list so you need to take things
off the burn list before you can delete them maybe

 

[Jim]

When I copy files to a CD, I drag them from a folder directly to the CD.
It
writes them to the CD just fine. But after that, it saves all those files
and
will not allow me to delete them. It says they are waiting to be written
to
the CD. I click on them, hit delete and it will give me an error that it
can't be deleted because it's being used by another person or program.
This
is with no programs running, and I'm not on a network. It's so
frustrating!
Then, the next time I want to burn a CD, those other files are still there
and they get burned to the CD too. Any ideas? I'm at a loss!!

The program which you are using to write to the CD is not properly cleaning
its staging folder. The solution is to change programs.
You usually get such a message when the CD writing software cannot complete
its job because the hardware will not write to the drive.
In such a case, the files are owned by the software which is still waiting
for the job to complete. Of course, the software is not running; it is hung
by the hardware.
If you can very that the hardware write completed, then you have a problem
with your software because it did not finish the writing task.
Jim