Burning CDs in sesions

Question

I have an iMac with Leopard 10.5.8 and have suddenly realised I don’t know how to burn sessions on CDs. On my earlier machines, eMac and G3s I always used Toast to burn my disks which had an option for sessions. The software built into the iMac does not appear to have that option and when I go to disk utility I can’t find the way to do it.
Can anyone help - describe the process and how do you make that the default?
Will such disks be readable by others? I know that some PCs used to have trouble with
Mac disks that were in sessions.
thanks

Answer 1

Open Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder), choose Help > Disk Utility Help, and search for “multisession.” You will find this information:
To burn to a recordable CD so you can burn to it again:
In Disk Utility, create a disk image that contains the files you want to burn to the disc. The files must be from a volume with a Mac OS Extended disk format. To check a volume’s disk format, select the disk in Disk Utility, and look at the information at the bottom of the Disk Utility window.
Select the disk image in the Disk Utility list, and then choose Images > Burn.
Select the “Leave disc appendable” checkbox. If you don’t see this option, click the triangle in the top-right corner.
Insert a blank recordable CD in the optical drive and click Burn.