I have switched from my trusty dell laptop to my macbook laptop for my primary workstation. I use parallels and boot camp to get my windows fix for the apps I just can’t replace but mostly I run in OS X all day. Recently I’ve wanted to archive my many gigs of photos to DVD.
One annoying thing that the mac finder doesn’t do is provide a size summary of selected files in the bottom title bar like windows explorer. This makes selecting exactly 4.7 GB worth of files for burning kind of annoying. Luckily I’ve found a cool free app that allows me to backup my photo folder to multiple DVD-R discs simply by dragging the files onto the app. It’s made my life a little easier. It’s called DVD Spanner and it’s free! Thanks Matt Sergeant!
I assume it’s Mac only. Since I use a real computer, I can’t run it, so I will ask, can it be configured to verify the data written to the disc?
It doesn’t look like it can. The only bum disc I’ve burned so far is one that I was getting the data over a 100mbit network link. Once I switched to gigabit or local disc it worked fine. So far so good.