Burn folder vs. make duplicate of  update pkgs.

hello...
i need something explained please and have only gotten more confused by reading the posts on topic. ..
i did an erase and install sunday and used software update to install and keep packages. i kept packages as i am on dialup and it takes 7 hrs. for some downloads. i know it can be done and i know that others do this...my desire is to burn those packages to cd in the event of crash before i get this cloned to external or i could also use them on my emac which has not been 10.4.3 ed yet.
my question is this; i located those packages, put them in burn folder and burned. i then questioned the purpose of burning an alias in this case. that would do no good, right? i then just made duplicate of each and dragged to newly created folder and burned.
was there a difference in those two actions and will the latter do the job i intended as the former would not?
thanks much,
ballerina

Hi ballerina,
When you place items in the burn folder they are indeed aliases but when you burn the CD it burns copies of the original file, not the aliases that you put in the folder. Either way you did the burn the end result was the same; copies of the original files were put on the CD's
Seems a little confusing with the aliases but it is supposed to speed up burning by the system not having to make duplicates of eaach file before burning it like it did before the burn folder feature was added.

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