I have this Sonic Record Now Deluxe V7, I can copy files to a cd  and burn them, my problem is it is Read Only, you can add more files to the cd, but you cant go in to any of those files and make corrections or add or erase anything,Is there a way to keep these files open? Say I have files for my books, a childrens file, a anmals and pet, or fiction, If I want to add anything I have to make another file, I can't go back into say the childrens file and add or make correction. This is very frustrating, because as I get more info I need to get back into those files and not make a new file.The Sonic program that I had with my old computer,Win ME, let you leave the files open ,it was much simpler. Any Suggestion, thanks,Pat

   That is the way CDs have always been.  It is not theoretically possible to change a file on a CD without rewriting the whole thing.  Some CD burning programs make it seem like they are changing the file but what they actually do is close off the old content of the CD and write a whole new section (with the old and the new in it).  These sections are called sessions.  A CD can contain many old sessions on it but only the most recent session is visible.  CD burners cannot go in and just rewrite part of the session.  It has to write the entire session.
   There is one exception to all of what I just said.  It is packet writing.  Two old standards of the packet format are Packet CD and Direct CD.  Packet format writes little sessions all over the CD and then rewrites the individual sessions.  With packet writing you can copy files directly to the CD and change them as much as you want.  In order to use packet writing the CD must first be formatted by the packet software.
   Maybe the Sonic program that you had before had some type of packet writing in it, but I have never heard of anything like that.