Archiving HUGE files

[ChuckU]

I've got a huge (~900MB) .cwb file on my hard drive that I wanna archive on CD. It's one song, but I've got about 5 separate dum takes I don't want to part with yet. Obviously, the file is larger than a single CD and a DVD burner just is not in my immediate future

I'm thinking of loading WinRar which should allow me to span the file on more than one disk. Is there burner software that will do this? Any suggestions/success stories would be helpful.

Chuck

[Track Rat]

What I do is to make two folders, put half of the waves and the project info in one (obviously up to the capacity of a single CD-R) and the rest in the other folder. Folder one with one half of the project, the balance on the other. I've done it this way using up to three CD-Rs. To get it back into the computer, I make a new folder and drag the info off of the CD-Rs back into the new folder in the computer. It works every time for me.

[Flash]

I've never tried it but, wouldn't winzip work?

[ChuckU]

Track Rat: Good idea. I imagine this would be a no-brainer with Sonar 2's new file folder system, eh? I'm really trying to hold off the upgrade.

Flash: Worth a try. Like I said, I know you can get Winrar to do kind of the opposite of Winzip and cut the file in pieces of specified length.

Thanks for the input.

[dachay2tnr]

Chuck - Take a look at Backup to CD-RW on this page. It looks like it'll do what you want to do. It's listed as shareware, so you should be able to check it out first. Unfortunately, I have no direct experience with it.

http://www.softlandmark.com/CDRWSoft2.htm