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Ah, yes, I see. The use of the two terms is a bit confusing, to me at least. Thanks for clearing that up. Back to the drawing board...

Der, why would I want to /ERASE, wouldn't that wipe the whole disc? All I'm trying to do is overwrite a file if it currently exists on the disc, I don't want to loose the rest of them. Yours in confusion, B

OK clever-clogs, I get the gist...A self-taught man...or woman, is one who will retain that knowledged gained. Quite right, I was being lazy :-D So, for anyone else listening... The answer was: 1. Fire up ImgBurn manually, by hand and mouse. 2. Check the "Don't Prompt Overwrite Media" box on the Write tab of the Tools | Settings dialog. 3. Change the /NOSAVESETTINGS to /SETTINGS "<filename>" 4. Run the batch file and answer the "Overwrite?" dialog and let the operation finish, thereby writing the settings file in 3 ( which didn't exist ) which will contain the now checked "Don't Prompt Overwrite Media" setting. 5. Add back /NOSAVESETTINGS to prevent Father-in-Law from messing with the settings file created in 4 and causing support headache. Thanks for making me do it myself LIGHTNING UK, I feel a warm sense of satisfaction inside. I like your style. Donation in the post. B

Hello ImgBurn Support Forum, I am writting a batch file to backup some files to DVD+RW. I have been assuming that the /OVERWRITE YES switch setting should prevent the "This disc is not empty. All data on the disc will be overwritten! Do you want to continue? Yes | No" dialog box from appearing. I'm using the switch but the dialog keeps appearing...something, somewhere, is not right :-) Here is the Log and batch file. Any help much appreciated. I 23:39:36 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!I 23:39:36 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 23:39:36 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,520 KB - Available: 1,326,128 KB I 23:39:36 Initialising SPTI... I 23:39:36 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 23:39:36 Found 1 DVD