On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:30:40 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but >> >> >> >> >> >> nothing >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> most >> >> >> >> >> >> or all of the >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think >> >> >> >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple >> >> >> >> >> > of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of >> >> >> >> >> > blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >> >> >> >> >> > >used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and >> >> >> >> >> > miracle >of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need >> >> >> >> >> > to erase the > I think it *is* expected behaviour. After all, you don't want it to erase > anything without warning. I think you had a disk that is not finalized (do > CD-RW disks finalize? I don't know) therefore it could append the file. > There was nothing in what you were doing to make it suspect that it shouldn't > do so. Yes. Normally, one is asked, before data are deleted. I am not sure whether or not CD-RW media finalize (there's another word for that?). I think so, because they seem to have something done to them, after the data are written to the media. > > I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that that is what has > happened, and is quite normal. Now if you have an iso downloaded anywhere you > might try burning an image, and see if that asks you about deleting. I'll bet > it does. I'll Download an .iso and see if I am asked whether or not I want to erase the media before writing the .iso to it.