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[FortNinety]

I just got Toast to back some stuff up and I just can't figure out how to use it. If anyone could answer these question, I'd much appreciate it...

1. If I copied a CD with data on it and Toast asks for a blank disc and I choose not to put one it, where does the data I just coped go to?

2. Let's say I did put in a blank disc, after the burn, where does the data go to? Does it automatically go to the trash?

3. Is there anyway to examine the data when it's been copied and is on my hard drive?

Basically, I got Toast thinking I could copy discs in some compressed format for easy archiving, but now I'm realizing that it just a copy and burn utility. Am I right? Wrong?

I'm using Toast for the Mac btw.

 

[demi]

TOAST IS FOR EATING, SILLY

ok i had to say it bye

 

[fart]

toast is not a backup utility, you want retrospect or similar. you can use toast to backup as you've described, but you will have to handle the compression and organization yourself.

as for the rest of your questions... who in the what where now?

 

[Freestyler]

Hmn, I know Toast can work with disc images (saving a 'CD' as an actual file, with some weird extension on it), but not sure on the specifics.

 

[FortNinety]

toast is not a backup utility, you want retrospect or similar. you can use toast to backup as you've described, but you will have to handle the compression and organization yourself.

as for the rest of your questions... who in the what where now?

Well thanks for clearing things up. But all is not lost; I do have various things which I also want to copy and create back ups. But back to my original question..

If I copy a disc and then don't give a blank disc when prompted, what happens? Does the information I just copied get stored somewhere? Is it in a folder somewhere?

I ask because I copied a disc and put in another disc and wonder where the info from the first one went to. Again, I thought I could just hold onto everything, for backing up, but I'm wrong. But is the data from the disc saved, or does it get deleted?

 

[Space Age Playboy]

TOAST IS FOR EATING, SILLY

ok i had to say it bye

I thought this was going to be a silly toast appreciation thread.

 

[fart]

ok, so i guess you're going through the burn dialog and then you say "ok i want to burn!" and then it asks you for a blank disc to burn and then you do what?

if you don't put in a blank disc it will try to burn it anyways, and if it can't, it will spit it out and ask for a blank disc.

the flowchart here is:

what do you want to burn? -> give me something to burn to -> ok i'm burning!! -> ok i'm done buddy -> back to start

 

[cloudwalking]

I thought this was going to be a silly toast appreciation thread.

me too, i was going to tell you to put peanut butter on it, that's the yummiest ever

good luck with the program though

 

[FortNinety]

But again, if I don't put in a blank disc when prompted (after it just copied the original), where does the info reside? Is it a folder on the Mac? It has to be somewhere.

 

[demi]

I thought this was going to be a silly toast appreciation thread.

We were all played, Playboy...

 

[Iceman]

"Never Watched Square One"

Never never?

Not even Mathnet? Dirk Niblick? But Who's Counting?

Next you'll tell me you never watched Pinwheel or Today's Special.

 

[Kiriku]

Carry on.

 

[FortNinety]

That's hot.

 

[fart]

if i understand your question right, you're wondering where the image cache is when you do a copy disc op. i think it uses the directory specified in settings. if all you want is disc images (and not duplicates) though, you can just use apple's disk copy utility, it'll produce the same .img file as toast (unless toast has a proprietary format.. regardless, disk copy is superior).

 

[FortNinety]

Well I was just concerned of having a backlog of disk images eating up memory, that's all. I get the impression that these images just disapear after awhile. I still find that a bit odd, but I guess I'll take everyone's word for it.

 

[Diablos]

A Parappa toaster? SWEET!

 

[Jill Sandwich]

POWDERRRRED TOOOOOOOAST MMAAAAAAAAAAAN!!

 

[Vandalier]

Mother Mary knows all about Toast.