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k3b remove old multisession files
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Jukka Hellen
21 years ago
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I'm trying to introduce Linux to a friend and I'm wondering if it is
possible to remove files that were made as multisession in k3b? I have
tried several times to "remove" the files I don't need anymore on a CDR and
continuing a session but it still leaves all the unnecessary files there :(

k3b 0.11.4
cdrdao 1.1.8-pre2
cdrecord 2.1a25-dvd
mkisofs 2.1a24
Larry Smith
21 years ago
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Post by Jukka Hellen
I'm trying to introduce Linux to a friend and I'm wondering if it is
possible to remove files that were made as multisession in k3b? I have
tried several times to "remove" the files I don't need anymore on a CDR and
continuing a session but it still leaves all the unnecessary files there :(
k3b 0.11.4
cdrdao 1.1.8-pre2
cdrecord 2.1a25-dvd
mkisofs 2.1a24
If the disc is a CD-R rather than a CR-RW, then files
can not be deleted. A CD-R can only be written to;
it is permanent, files can not be erased. If you wish
to treat the CD as a "large floppy disk", then you must
use CD-RW disks; they can be erased.

Regards,
Larry
Jukka Hellen
21 years ago
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OK I ment delete like in Nero when it just rewrites the TOC and hides the
files that were "deleted" :) It works on CDR discs too (Nero).
Larry Smith
21 years ago
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I'm not familiar with Nero. However, it is physically
impossible to delete anything from a CD-R disk.
If you have a multi-session CD-R that has not yet been
'finalized', you can add additional sessions to it, but
you can not delete anything. Once the CD-R disk
has been 'finalized' it can not be written to again.

Only CD-RW disks allow deleting.

Regards,
Larry
Andy Fraser
21 years ago
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Post by Larry Smith
Post by Jukka Hellen
OK I ment delete like in Nero when it just rewrites the TOC and hides the
files that were "deleted" :) It works on CDR discs too (Nero).
I'm not familiar with Nero. However, it is physically
impossible to delete anything from a CD-R disk.
If you have a multi-session CD-R that has not yet been
'finalized', you can add additional sessions to it, but
you can not delete anything. Once the CD-R disk
has been 'finalized' it can not be written to again.
I think I know what the OP means. I haven't used Nero in ages but I remember
that if you burn a session you can hide files in that session when you burn
another session. If you do this a lot you can end up wasting a large amount
of a CD because the hidden files are obviously still there. Hide probably
isn't the right term but that's effectively what happens.

I don't know how to do that in K3B though.
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Andy.
Hannu
21 years ago
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Post by Jukka Hellen
OK I ment delete like in Nero when it just rewrites the TOC and
hides the files that were "deleted" :) It works on CDR discs too
(Nero).
Just a wild guess (have never needed to delete files on CDR): Put an
empty, hidden file with a same name to the new session.
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