# Multi-DVD file burning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 20, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848 "2007-05-20T21:05:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848/1 "2007-05-20T21:05:43Z")

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I’m looking for a utility (preferably freeware, naturally) to burn my large collection of digital photos onto multiple DVDs. Ideally I would like to simply select the “My Pictures” directory, which has a subdirectory for each month of the last few years, and keep inserting discs until the burning is complete. I don’t want to have to keep selecting two or three months at a time for each disc.

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848/2 "2007-05-20T22:24:35Z")

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How about using Winzip to create an archive and then split the archive into 4 GB or 8 GB chunks? Or do you want the files to be directly accessible?

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**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848/3 "2007-05-20T23:00:28Z")

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Great idea. I’ll give this a try. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-dvd-file-burning/404848/4 "2007-05-21T01:06:22Z")

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I think Roxio’s EZ-CD Creator will do this for you. However, I have just used it to split physically large single files - in which case you need the program to be able to “put them back together again” later on.

But I have a feeling that what you are asking is a feature of EZ CD - you tell it what to burn, it tells you how much of a disk it’ll fill up and eventually if you go over the limit of the disk in the drive, it starts chunking things into multiple disks.