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WriteCD-RW - 1.5

use your CD-RW just like a floppy

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All Time:	(1.7)
Version 1.5:	(1.7)
Selected Version:	1.5
Release Date:	2001-09-17
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.5):	17,072
Downloads (all versions):	19,018
Price:	$39.95

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Product Description:

Write CD-RW! is everything you need to set up and run a CD Rewritable (CD-RW) drive and use it just like a high capacity floppy disk
Write CD-RW! is a powerfull utility that makes it easy to record data to CD-RW media. Write CD-RW! allows your CD-RW disc to appear just like any other drive on your desktop. In other words, your CD-RW drive handles files just like a hard disk or floppy disk.
This means you can drag & drop, rename, move or "delete" files using Finder, save files directly to the drive from your spreadsheet, word processor, or other applications, or download files directly from the internet. This makes using CD-RWs great for ongoing backup, archiving and general data for temporary storage and interchange.
For seemless, true drag and drop functionality, the file system and driver architectures need to be fully integrated. For over 14 years, SAI has been a pioneer and leader in developing file systems and driver utilities that support both block addressable media and sequential recording media. We applied this knowledge to create a utility that lets you save files and use CD-RW media just as you're used to with floppies.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2

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Version 1.5:
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Thank you for… - Version: 1.5, 4/26/2002 09:46PM PST

sqcircle

your work on this product- I would be interested in a version without the shortcomings I found in version 1.2: -Formatting each CD-RW takes 45 minutes -It doesn't support CD-Rs, only CD-RWs -Changes to Finder views don't stay -Writes to disc even when no changes made This looks like a product with some potential but the product description is misleading in suggesting that it is fast without mentioning the 45 minute formatting wait. Also, CD-RW drives can write CD-Rs, so it is natural to assume that they would be supported.

There is a… - Version: 1.5, 10/12/2001 05:33PM PST

Delysid

real need for a product that will do for the Mac OS what Adaptec/Roxio's Direct CD does for Windows (and used to do for earlier versions of Mac OS). I use DirectCD on my Windows machine and it is great. It can treat CD-RW's *or* CD-R's as big floppies. With CD-R's the files can't actually be erased, of course, but their directory reference is, so you don't see them anymore. Might sound silly but in practice it's very useful, especially if you're mainly copying great big files or bunches of files to the CD-R (e.g. for backing up or transferring big downloads from a machine with a fast Internet connection to a machine with a slow one). I haven't tried WriteCD but I can tell you such a product is truly useful and someone should write one for Mac OS -- ideally, Apple should make it part of the system, and hopefully will for OS X.

I bought it,… - Version: 1.5, 9/25/2001 03:24PM PST

VictorBurner

used it, and regretted it. It worked (sorta) but formatting and writing took forever. Then I asked myself "With blank CDs costing 25 cents each why am I spending more for CD-RW media and wasting too much time rewriting them?" From now on I'm gonna burn 'em quickly using Toast and throw it away and burn another instead rewriting. What a waste of money all around!