DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:
smh wrote:
DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:

I'm using the bundled version of Nero version 5.5.10.9 to make multisession
discs. I see there is a graphical status bar at the bottom of the screen to tell
you how much total space you are using on the disc. It would help if I could get
a number that tells me exactly how much space is left for files when continuing
a multisession disc.

When continuing a 650 MB Multisession disc I clicked on the Disc Info icon and
it told me the available space was 61 MB. I then added 61 MB to the disc and
checked the File-Compilation Info screen.
This showed Total Data To Be Written: 61 MB. Then I checked the status bar at
the bottom of the screen and it and it was over the 650 MB line by what looked
like a lot. It showed the amount I was over by in yellow. Next I deleted a 5 MB
file from the disc. This put the status bar right on the 650 MB line.

What did I do wrong? Is there a better way to know how much space is left?

Burned 613M (compilation) on 656M disc. After the burn Disc_Info says
20M available. Compiled 20M data and the status bar showed yellow bar.
Click the Burn button and Nero went into analyzing disc. Nero then
prompted: "There is not enough space available to burn this compilation
unless the cd is finalized after burning. Do you want Nero to finalize
it after burning?" When selected No, Nero proceeded to burn
successfully! (20M data passed verification) Disc_Info says Total
capacity of 635M with available capacity greyed out.

I would have selected Yes to finalize since you would not be able to add another
session later in any case. I say more about this below.

Selected No to see what happens as Nero says no space unless finalize.
Well, Nero burned ok even if not finalized.


Checked the cd with CD-R Diagnostic and it says the disc has passed all
checks for replication!

According to the above, go by the available capacity given by Disc_Info
and disregard the yellow bar.

Something's not quite right with available capacity, however.

656M(cd) - 613M(1st data) =43M
43M - 23M(1st session overhead) =20M

So 20M avail cap is not after the second session overhead was accounted
for. Yet the burn was successful despite there was no room for the 14M
second session overhead.

My impression is that 20MB available means after the second session overhead is
taken into account.

There are two "20M" here, the one I calculated and the one given by
Avail Cap. My calculated "20M" was arrived at without accounting for
the next session overhead.


As for the message, "There is not enough space available to burn this
compilation unless the cd is finalized after burning. Do you want Nero to
finalize it after burning?", that confuses me. I don't know why it seems to be
saying that if you finalize there will be enough space and if you do not
finalize there will not be. Doesn't finalizing use up some additional space?

Finalize does not use up additional space - and neither leaving it open
does, based on what I read. (The last lead-in is supposed to have a
close/open flag, and the address of the next track in the case of open.)


I think I get the same message even though I have the Finalize CD checkbox
checked on the Burn tab of the Info screen to indicate that I want it to be
finalized. So why is it asking me if I want to finalize? :-)

I even get this same message when I burn a DAO disc. I always click on Yes and
it burns but I don't know why this message is popping up.

That's weird, even comical. Didn't experience them as I usually leave
cd open and have about 50M spare room.