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i have an ibook and i need to know how can i burn a 700 mb cd, because when i insert a cd the finder shows me only 660 free mb, how can i burn 700 mb of data in a single cd???? thanxss
Apple does not consider it a bug. If you remember that in OS X, space on a hard drive or an optical drive is reported in binary where k=1024. So 1024*1024*660=692,060,160.00 bytes. Allowing for rounding that is approximately the 700,000,00 bytes decimal where k=1,000 advertised by the manufacturer of the media.Pengu said:um. no. i think this is a bug in the finder. if you use Toast, you can write 700mb to a 700mb disk. 700mb disks are in actual fact ~800mb, but the rest is use for checksumming. audio CDs don't use checksumming, so you can get 80mins, (cd-audio is almost exactly 10mb per minute, and 80x10=100)
the finder however, also displays 660 of 670mb available (9mb used for hidden files) on my new g5...
Pengu said:how come iTunes will burn a full 80 minutes to a 700mb/80min CD-R, but the finder only sees the same discs as 670mb?
Pengu said:Um. i beg to differ about the binary/decimal thing. these are screenshots i just took at home before coming to work.
this quite clearly shows that the Finder shows the files as 700mb BINARY or 733.6mb DECIMAL.