Effectively arrange/burn files by their size

[Tobias]

Hi!

I'd like to propose a new feature(what else^^):

You have a bunch of files, big, middle and small sized ones, for example some letters, ebooks, movie files and photos.

Now you want to burn(/backup) them on some volumes, e.g. DVD's.

 

My propose is that you select a volume(a maximum size, e.g. 4.7 GB) and ImgBurn automatically arranges the files on the available volume space, so that a minimum number of volumes is required. It should automatically run some kind of batch burning("please insert disc x") then.

Some kind of numbering function for the volume labels(e.g. volume label: "Data backup %n%") and some time stramp functions would be really cool, too.

 

There might be the question: Why not compress the files and split the archive?

I've got multiple reasons against this.

• If one DVD is scratched, the archive is damaged
  
• You can't just copy the data by ctrl + C, ctrl +v from explorer
  
• You can't access single files without having to uncompress them
  

 

I wrote a little application which does what I request here for ImgBurn, but it only creates ISO-Images using mkisofs which you have to put into ImgBurn manually. If ImgBurn does that inside itself, this would be REALLY cool.

 

I'm interested in your opinions.

 

greets,

burny

 

P.S.: ImgBurn is a GREAT app! Can't think of one single use of Nero since I heard of ImgBurn...

[LIGHTNING UK!]

This isn't really something that interests me right now I'm afraid.

 

It's probably easier if you just adapt the little program you wrote so it feeds the list of folders / files to ImgBurn instead of mkisofs.

 

ImgBurn's CLI stuff is detailed in the readme.txt