Thanks blutach!
Yes, for sure. I think ImgBurn would be the Nero killer, with a little bit better GUI.
Yes, i could but....when i drag a folder containing subfolders and files, I can't see wich files and subfolders i got nor i can see the size of each folder.
OK blutach, maybe i have to explain me better showing you some workflow example.
What i usually try to do is to fill up any DVD nearly to its maximum capacity.
Rarely i leave more than 15-20 MB unused.
To success in this process, i have to try several file and directory structure combinations until i reach the best one.
So i add some dir, then delete some sub dir.....no, let me try to reinsert this e leave that one out, and so on....
Having the entire view of current directory tree and size of each subfolder and file, help me a lot.
Explorer, for example, does not have the same flexibility to see the size of every subfolder at once.
The only way would be to create the exact directory structure on the HD and then drag its root in ImgBurn, but composing it would be very difficult without the automatic calculation of total tree size. I whould have to check it again and again, many times, moving dirs back and forth. Too much time consuming and error prone, IMHO.
In my workflow i have 3 main directories:
DanyToCheck
DanyXDVD
Dany
The first one is where all downloaded files (and subdirs) will be stored. From there i start to organize, file by file (checking it out and renaming it if necessary) and dir by dir, the intermediate shape of group of application or document files locally linked.
As soon as a dir or group of file is ready to be burned, i move them in DanyXDVD.
So DanyXDVD contains only ready to be burned files and dirs.
Usually this directory grows a lot, with a large number of files.
For example now is about 15 GB and DanyToCheck is over 180 GB.
Then i start to pick up group of files and dirs logically connected, adding them to a fresh new DVD project in Nero.
The root directory of DVD will be named "Dany" as the name of final destination (so it has a different name than the source dir "DanyXDVD").
After a DVD has been burned, its contents is indexed by Cathy (a simple and powerful catalog application) and all corresponding files contained in DanyXDVD will be moved to Dany (my library root directory for definitve storage).
And the process starts again for the next DVD, pickinig up files from DanyXDVD until there are enough files. If not, i go back to DanyToCheck.
Now i think you can better understand that the whole process is not so simple to do with Nero and would be nearly impossible to do using ImgBurn and its build user interface.
Bye