Burning CDs
If your Macintosh includes a Combo drive, CD-R/CD-RW drive, or SuperDrive, you can write, or burn, files onto blank CD-R media. This is a great way to archive important files that you don’t need on your computer’s hard disk and to share files with other computer users.
The Mac OS X 10.4 Finder offers two ways to burn a CD:
Create a burn folder, fill the folder with the files you want to include on the CD, and use the Burn Disc command to burn the CD. Burn folders are a new feature of Mac OS X 10.4.
Insert a blank CD, name the CD, then drag the icons for the files you want to include on the CD onto the CD’s icon on the desktop. Then use the Burn Disc command to burn the CD.
On the following pages, I explain how to use both techniques. ...
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