Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
- Subject: Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
- From: Chris Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:12:44 +0000
On 1/15/02 11:02 PM Zarquon wrote:
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Alright, this is such an elementary problem that I cannot believe that I
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haven't found an answer to it yet, but here goes:
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I have several large folders (multiple gigabytes) that I wish to archive to
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CD. I have Toast. Will someone please tell me how to move all this stuff to
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CD without having to manually go in and split these folders up into 650MB
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segments? Ideally, it would go into "Toaster mode" and spit out CDs and ask
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for new ones as it goes along, but I'll accept something that will just
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auto-segment my folders (without having to Stuff them first; I'm aware of
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that option).
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<SNIP>
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This seems like a problem that lends itself quite well to
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AppleScript, but apparently no one has ever solved this problem on the
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Mac by any means. Am I the only one who has ever wanted to do this?
I solved this for someone on this list a few weeks ago. The script is here:
http://www.cypresslakestudios.com/applescript/index.html#fillFolders
and does this:
"This script takes one big folder and recursively fills folders up to the
established 650MB limit. It will check all current folders and will put
files larger than 650 MB into a "too big" folder. It generates folders named
"disk 1", "disk 2", "disk 3.""
There are scripts there that will get you started automating the burns to
Toast on the same page.
Hope that this helps:
Chris
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Chris Adams
Cypress Lake Studios
Hypermedia, Quicktime, and Internet Design
http://www.cypresslakestudios.com
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