CDs randomly filling to capacity

[davemaul]

HELP! The last two times I've used my Word program, I have been working on my hardrive, and when i go to save the doc to my CD, the disk is mysteriously COMPLETELY FULL.

There are only a few files on the CD, but it shows no unused space available.

It has happened to two different CD disks, and I cannot find, erase, or reformat the disk to restore its capacity.

What is happening?

Dave

 

[Jezebel]

If you've got Word working directly with the CD you'll fill it up very
quickly. Word creates a temporary copy of your file while you're working,
and it updates that copy quite often. If you've got your machine set up to
work directly with the CD burner, everytime it tries to update the file it
has to write it out completely (since you can't overwrite on a CD). Since
these are re-writes of the same file, you've got nothing to show for it but
used space.

HELP! The last two times I've used my Word program, I have been working on

my hardrive, and when i go to save the doc to my CD, the disk is
mysteriously COMPLETELY FULL.

There are only a few files on the CD, but it shows no unused space available.

It has happened to two different CD disks, and I cannot find, erase, or

reformat the disk to restore its capacity.

 

[davemaul]

Jezebel

Why can't I erase or reformat this CD-RW then? If (as you suggest) the disk has been completely filled with duplication of the same file, then all I need to do is erase this disk and re-copy the files from the hard drive again. I guess I'll work without the disk in the drive in the future (to protect it from random re-saving), but I can't seem to restore the available capacity of this CD-RW

Suggestions

Dave