Re: Burning files to a CD with K3b
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Amy Templeton wrote:
> Eric A. Bonney wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway to get K3b to allow you to write files to the CD
>> from a network drive? In order to burn any files to a cd I first
>> have to copy them to my local drive then copy them over. Any
>> ideas or help?
>
> This is just a random shot in the dark that may or may not work,
> but have you tried using symlinks (ln -s /path/to/realfile.ogg
> /path/to/symlink.ogg) instead of copying the files? That may be
> enough to fool K3B into thinking they're local, or it might not.
> Anyway, that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but if
> worse comes to worst you could give it a shot.
Disclaimer: I have never used K3B. I assume you are using KDE or GNOME.
The desktop environment provides a level of abstraction, so that you do
not need to know how files are accessed. Unfortunately this
functionality is only available for applications that are aware of it.
While K3B may be aware of it, the backend it uses for burning the CD's
is not, and therefore cannot find the files. K3B should copy the files
for you, but I guess this functionality is not implemented.
Anyway, burning directly from the network is not safe, unless you are
building the CD image before burning (in which case the files are copied
anyway). Or you can copy the files manually, and burn "on the fly",
without needing to create the image.
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