How to make / burn a data CD with Mac OS X

First published on February 16, 2007

I’m a long-term Windows users who now uses an iMac in the workplace. Macs weren’t that foreign to me as I’d used them at school a few times. But I still have lots of learning to do and hope to report some random facts about Mac OS X once in a while.

So my first Googleable need was writing a few files to a CD-RW. Naturally, I love my Nero (I shun the built-in Windows CD burning feature) but had to search for possibly a free Mac equivalent.

The search turned up with everybody saying to use iTunes! Yes, that would work if I needed to write some audio files as a data CD. But no audio, so no iTunes.

Also, I don’t want to use Toast, nor Disco (no matter how cool it looks or how inexpensive it is). Although, if and when my burning needs reach that point, I’ll be sure to research and report…

So I’ve already written too long of an intro: the answer is the Disk Utility application that is pre-installed under the… Applications folder. From there it was very easy to erase an existing CD-RW and drag and drop some files to write to the CD. And that’s it.

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