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I was extremely psyched to discover toast 7 had a disc spanning utility. If you drag a bunch of data into the data window and choose Mac only for the disc format, toast will automatically span the data into separate discs, put an index of all of your files on each disc, and put a program on each disc that will extract whatever files you need from your library, prompting you for each disc you need.
Great, this will be great for that 48 GB old PC hard drive image I have on my current hard drive! Except that 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 had a NASTY bug where if it encounters an error with one disc, it just skips it and moves on to the next disc! So my 11 DVD project only burned 9 DVDs.
THEN, I find out that there is no option to re-burn the DVD you want! You have to start back from the beginning!
Toast 7.0.2 fixes a bug that allows you to re-burn if your DVD fails, but still offers no option of burning the DVD you want! So many hours and useless DVDs later, I’m still left high and dry. I rant about it here:
http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=1752&hl=spanning
Thanks a lot toast!

–edit–
I managed to salvage my collection by doing two things:
1. using a DVD-RW that I could just erase with another program and re-insert for the discs I had already burned, to jump to the ones I wanted.
2. When that got too tedious, I just scratched the heck out of DVD-Rs so that it would detect it as a DVD-R but would fail burning to it. This still wasted DVD-Rs but saved me some time. One time I scratched in the right place where it could detect it as blank but didn’t burn at all, detecting it again as a blank DVD-R and allowing me to reuse it!
Also, two addendums: 1, it looks like toast’s restore program has been updated too, so be sure to grab toast 7.0.2. 2, toast failed on one of the DVDs because it was a Sony DVD-R instead of a maxell DVD-RW, claiming it was a different size. I was able to burn on to different media for this library (such as dynex DVD+Rs) but beware that toast may choke when spanning if you don’t use all the same media.

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