How do you back up the hard drive?

[MACDRIVE]

Yes I'm being serious; I actually don't know how to do it. Say if I wanted to copy my Documents and Pictures out of Finder onto a blank CD, how would I do that?

PowerBook G4 800MHz/DVI/OS 10.3.9

 

[camomac]

have you tried toast?

you just drag and drop folders and files into it. and it can also span over several disc's (cd and dvd)...

 

[MACDRIVE]

have you tried toast?

Yes I have. I like multi-grain wheat with wipped butter...

WTH is toast?

 

[Soton Speed]

Toast

You already have a method as it is.

1. Create a disk image using Disk Copy (/Apps/Utilities).

2. Drag and drop files into Image.

3. Burn Image to CD.

I think there may be some free/shareware programs that will do items 1 & 2 automatically.

 

[ChrisA]

...Say if I wanted to copy my Documents and Pictures out of Finder onto a blank CD, how would I do that?

PowerBook G4 800MHz/DVI/OS 10.3.9

You have 10.3 Tiger makes this a lot easier and lets you burn disks from the finder.

You will need to use Disk Utility to make an image and then burn the image. More steps but no really so hard to do.

 

[MACDRIVE]

No third party apps please. I was hoping someone's advice would go like this:

Insert CD into Combo Drive > Then > Then> Then > ....

 

[gr8tfly]

You can create a burn folder in 10.3. I believe the difference between it and Tiger (10.4) is it makes copies of your files when it makes the burn folder (rather than aliases). I think it's in the same Finder menu: File->New Burn Folder.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904

 

[AvMac]

No third party apps please. I was hoping someone's advice would go like this:

Insert CD into Combo Drive > Then > Then> Then > ....

1. From Finder Menu -> File -> New Burn Folder (Creates a Burn folder)
2. Drag and Drop your files and folders to this burn folder
3. Insert your blank media disk (dvd/cd)
4. Open Burn folder -> Right click (ctrl click) and select option "Burn Disk"
5. You're done.

Edit: I realised you have OS 10.3. I am not sure if its different than in 10.4

 

[dolphin1]

I have silverkeeper. It's very user friendly and easy to use. If I can use it, anyone can
It makes it so easy to backup anything you want and put it wherever you want. I usually transfer over onto a blank CD and then burn it.

 

[MACDRIVE]

1. From Finder Menu -> File -> New Burn Folder (Creates a Burn folder)

I click on what?

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=62906&stc=1&d=1164694320

 

[gr8tfly]

Have you inserted a blank CD yet? 10.3 doesn't have a "New Burn Folder..." - it's been awhile and I don't have 10.3 handy.

At any rate, check out the KB article (was also in my previous post): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904

 

[tech4all]

I click on what?

Double click on the CD/DVD icon. Does anything in there say "burn"? (not on Panther right now, so I'm not exactly sure what it looks like)

 

[MACDRIVE]

Have you inserted a blank CD yet? 10.3 doesn't have a "New Burn Folder..." - it's been awhile and I don't have 10.3 handy.

I don't even have a blank CD yet; I'm just getting prepped and ready.

Double click on the CD/DVD icon. Does anything in there say "burn"? (not on Panther right now, so I'm not exactly sure what it looks like)

When I insert the CD, will there be a CD icon on the desktop?

 

[tech4all]

When I insert the CD, will there be a CD icon on the desktop?

Yes. I just popped in a CD-R into my iBook running 10.3.9. You should see an "untitled CD" on your desktop. Then when you open the a Finder window you will also see it in the sidebar. There will be one of those radioactive symbol things that you click to burn the CD. Also if you right click (Ctrl click) on the CD icon, you should see "Burn Disc" as well. Just copy your files onto the CD (I think it's actually file and not just aliases with Panther), and burn the CD/DVD.

Also when you click and drag the CD icon, the Trash can turns into that radioactive symbol. So I think if you drag it to that, you can burn it as well.

 

[MACDRIVE]

Yes. I just popped in a CD-R into my iBook running 10.3.9. You should see an "untitled CD" on your desktop. Then when you open the a Finder window you will also see it in the sidebar. There will be one of those radioactive symbol things that you click to burn the CD. Also if you right click (Ctrl click) on the CD icon, you should see "Burn Disc" as well. Just copy your files onto the CD (I think it's actually file and not just aliases with Panther), and burn the CD/DVD.

Also when you click and drag the CD icon, the Trash can turns into that radioactive symbol. So I think if you drag it to that, you can burn it as well.

Okay that's the information I needed. Thank you so very much for your help.