Organize files by folder size in import

When importing files LR wil ask if I want to organize photos by date.
I'd like to be able to automatically create folders based on total size of files in the folder. The size could be specified at the import time. When the total size reaches the max size specified (i.e.: 4.5GB) LR would create a new folder. This way the files are ready for backup to DVD and I could empty the folders when I'm done working with the images.
The advantage of this approach is that each folder ends up on one DVD and after deleting the local files I can point LR to a DVD where the files are located.

Use code such as:
tell application "Finder"
set the_folder to (choose folder)
repeat with this_file from 1 to (count (get files of the_folder))
set name of file this_file of the_folder to (name of the_folder) & " " & this_file
end repeat
end tell
replacing the last this_file on the fourth line with the variable which contains the number.
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