READ ONLY CDRW

[Nick Cumberbatch]

I used Easy CD Creator 5 to burn a data CD. My OS is XP Professional

1) On My Computer folder under "CD Writing Tasks"...there is a "Write these
files" option

2) When I try to delete a certain file it says "read-only"

3) I right click on Read-only file and try to clear read only box but it
says "access denied"

4) What can I do with CD burnt with Easy CD Creator if I want to add or
delete files

 

[Nick Cumberbatch]

So then there is no advantage gained by using Easy CD Creator instead of
Direct CD??

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
So then there is no advantage gained by using Easy CD Creator instead of
Direct CD??

Direct CD allows you to use a CD-RW like a big floppy. You
can add files, selectively delete them, etc. EZCD is what
is referred to as an "authoring" package and allows for
more functionality in the general world of CD burning and
copying. But Direct CD and EZCD are different applications,
intended for different purposes, so one can't say that
one is better or worse than the other. Mr. Alex Nichol
has put together an excellent primer on the subject of
CD burning (see, I *can* be complimentary if need be)that
you might want to have a look at:

http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm

Also keep in mind that there is a lot of wrong information
in these NGs with regard to CD burning so you would do
well to research the subject on your own, starting with the
site referenced above.

 

[Nick Cumberbatch]

THANKS ALL

As mentioned by Wislu if you want the ability to remove files from a CD-R/W
then you need packet writing software. Direct CD that ships with Easy CD
Creator 5 is such software. You would do well to read through Alex Nichol's
primer which I have a link to from one of my pages here
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm

Easy CD Creator will allow you to add files to a disk using a process called
. This means you can repeatedly return to a disk and
add files to it until it is full. Providing the disk isn't filled you can
launch Easy CD Creator, pop your CD-R/W into the drive and continue to copy
files to it. Once it is full you will told that no more files can be written
to the disk. The same holds true fro CD-R media.

While you can not erase individual files from a CD using Easy CD Creator it
is possible to make files "appear" to be removed from a multi-session burn.
Everytime you add files to the CD-R/W the Table of Contents (TOC) is
rewritten. So if you already have burned 10 files to your CD-R/W and decide
you want one of those files to no longer appear in the TOC you can run Easy
CD Creator and pop the CD-R/W into the drive. Open the CD-R/W so that the
list of files appears in the BOTTOM pane. Select the file you want removed
and click on Delete. Then click on Record. A new TOC is written and the
removed file will not be listed. Please be aware that the file is not
actually deleted only the entry from the TOC is removed. When the disk is
opened in the future that file will not be listed and will be inaccessible.
You will not be able to reclaim the space though as the file is not erased
just not apparent in the TOC.

Please be advised that it will still be possible to extract "deleted files"
from a multisession disk if you have software that can view the individual
sessions. I can not remember if Easy CD Creator 5 has a "Session Selector"
but I remember that Easy CD Creator 4 did. A freeware program like ISOBuster
can read individual sessions though. So while the process above will hide a
file it will not erase it from the disk.
--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I used Easy CD Creator 5 to burn a data CD. My OS is XP Professional

1) On My Computer folder under "CD Writing Tasks"...there is a "Write these
files" option

2) When I try to delete a certain file it says "read-only"

3) I right click on Read-only file and try to clear read only box but it
says "access denied"

4) What can I do with CD burnt with Easy CD Creator if I want to add or
delete files