Saving files to a CD-R more than once

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I saw an article that explained how you can actually write to a CD-r more
than once.
I think it was from Kim Komando but I can not locate it from her site.
Does anyone know how this can be done or remember seeing the article and
where to get it?
 
DonC said:
I saw an article that explained how you can actually write to a CD-r more
than once.
I think it was from Kim Komando but I can not locate it from her site.
Does anyone know how this can be done or remember seeing the article and
where to get it?
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Your CD burning software can either close the session or close the disc. If
the former, then you can burn a multi-session CD. Each successive burn
re-records the existing files plus the "new" files to a fresh location. Of
course the previously occupied data area is no longer accessible.

Copying a CD is "disc-at-once" and is a one-use only process.

Paddy
Australia
 
It's usually just a case of enabling a multi session when creating a new
disc, and then continuing a multi session next time you want to write more
files. easily done in the wizards in nero or easy cd creator
 
Somehow when I aimed for CTRL+V I hit some other letter and sent the last
post instead of pasting the link. Here it is:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php .

I know that ALT+S is the send shortcut, but I'm hitting the CTRL key and not
ALT at all. Not sure why this happens.
 
Matt said:
Does this article help?


Yes it does. Thank you for responding. When I googled for this info I got a lot of "stuff" I didn't want. These forms help a great deal.
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Paddy said:
Your CD burning software can either close the session or close the disc. If
the former, then you can burn a multi-session CD. Each successive burn
re-records the existing files plus the "new" files to a fresh location. Of
course the previously occupied data area is no longer accessible.

Copying a CD is "disc-at-once" and is a one-use only process.

Paddy
Australia


Thank you for your reply. It is helpful.
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Philip Chandler said:
It's usually just a case of enabling a multi session when creating a new
disc, and then continuing a multi session next time you want to write more
files. easily done in the wizards in nero or easy cd creator
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Thank you for your reply. It is helpful.
 
Creating Discs with Multiple Sessions

IMAPI is capable of creating multi-session data discs. There are a few considerations to be aware of when creating a multi-session disc.


The IDiscMaster::SetActiveDiscRecorder method determines whether there is an IMAPI multi-session disc in the active drive upon setting. If so, IMAPI goes into multi-session mode automatically. Using ClearFormatContent after multi-session mode has been established causes IMAPI to return to single-session mode. This means that a blank disc is required for a RecordDisc burn. If the disc is in multi-session mode, the same disc must be in the active recorder or an error code of IMAPI_E_WRONGDISC will be returned.

Selecting a recorder while in Joliet format causes IMAPI to read information from the currently installed disc. If the disc is a previous IMAPI Joliet disc that has space for another session, IMAPI automatically sets itself to multi-session mode. This disc must be present in the active recorder when calling RecordDisc.

Closing the first session on a disc requires 21 MB. Each additional session requires 11 MB to close.



This is windows CD burning programmers docs.
 
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