DVD Back-ups

You know, I’ve not written much about the technology I’ve got.

Much as I’d LOVE to be working for MacWorld … ?   Frankly, I don’t the technology know-how.

But … ?

I DO know that I write well: and that, when I feel I have something to write about, I try to: as clearly and as distinctly, as possibly.

This post is — hopefully — going to be one of those occasions.

It’s about … 

Backing up … 

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The Daily Teaser — 8-3-2015: The Hitchhiker’s Guide …

Oh, well, THAT seems to works … 

I don’t know about you, but I have a fair collection of films: backed up onto an external hard drive.

Occasionally?

Occasionally, it’s handy to be able to burn off a copy of a film onto DVD: purely for personal use, obviously.

Now, I confess, I’ve using the open source app, Burn, if I want to burn off the occasional disk image.

But, wanting to use an alternative to iDVD, last night?

I thought I’d give Burn’s DVD burning abilities a go.

I’ve not completely checked the results on a DVD player, as yet: although they do play on Lion’s DVD playing software.

Handy to know.

And, if the results play in a regular DVD player?   That’ll be even handier … !

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More Techno Geekery …

Well, there’s a thing …

Remember me saying, a while back, that I was trying to transfer across a lot of .pdf’s over to the Performa, and couldn’t get the disc to be recognised?

Well …

I’ve managed — courtesy of next door neighbour, Lynn  — managed to get hold of some blank CD’s to try transporting a few a few files over.

And, as an extra thought, Apple are now handing out the Mac OS 7.5.5 updates, that’s probably worth a go, as well.

Now, as you’ll now from the last time I posted, the Performa had trouble recognising the fairly recent CD I’d tried to record with  the Mini’s on-board burning utility.

Why, I’m still not sure.

And a Joliet formatted CD, burnt with Burn.app wasn’t seemingly recognised, either.

But one thing I’ve found that Burn can do is save a group of files as a good ol’ fashioned .iso 9660 file, which — when burnt with Disc Utility — The Performa read like a D-ream!

So I’m happily pleased about that!

And I’ll probably be transfering the rest over, as and when!!

And trying the updates, too …