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Roxio. What are they all about? Toast 9 is a very good program, it does succeed at burning discs. I hardly ever use it anymore since USB thumb drives are so fast, huge, and universally supported these days. But every year when I do my taxes I always print the returns to a PDF file and save that to optical media.

So this morning after filing the complicated tax returns that are required because my husband and I are married in California, but the Federal government refuses to acknowledge our marriage, I wanted to burn our tax records to a DVD. When I started Toast 9 it informed me that there was an update available. No surprises there since I had not run the program in many moons.

Of course, unlike other programs that offer an update, I had to login to the Roxio website to prove my worthiness to download this update – despite the fact I had followed a link their program gave to me. OK.

So I downloaded version 9.0.5 of Toast, and of course I exited the running copy, but when I went to drag the new app from the mounted disk image file to my applications folder I got an error message “You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation” or words to that effect.

Of course some of the files had already been copied. This had rendered my installed program inoperable. My Toast upgrade toasted my Toast. Roxio is really well known for moron level screwups of this sort. I don’t know how many times an upgrade of a Roxio product has broken an existing, working copy of that program over the years, but it has certainly happened before more than once.

Fortunately for me I am fanatical about backups, I just used Time Machine to restore from a yesterday backup and the world was once again a good and happy place. I’ve never known anyone that regretted making a backup. I have known people that regretted buying Roxio products.

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