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Location: closely held secret | Are you trying to copy the FILES to disk, or are you doing a 'disk copy'?
When you say you 'have it on your desktop' do mean you have the files, or a disk image (like an ISO for example).
If you put the original in the dvd drive, and tell your burning program to copy the disk, it should work. It'll just make a temp copy of the disk image on your hard drive, then write it to the blank. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | And, despite what Clff told you, forget about the Xerox machine. This needs a different kind of copier. :D |
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Location: NJ | perhaps there isn't enough temp space on his hard drive to make the copy?? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Seriously now - could it be a cache issue? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah I have plenty of room on the hard drive...
Instead of burning from the finder I am gonna trash the current version I have on the desktop and make a duplicate and drop it on to the blank.
The original is showing 4.35 gigs so maybe this will work... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WeaserP said
"Seriously now - could it be a cache issue?"
Come on Jeff.....just whip out the credit card and get a real computer. That should solve the "cache" issue :rolleyes: |
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Location: closely held secret | For the copy to be playable you should do a direct disk-to-disk copy. Just copying the VOB, BUP and IFO files won't do it.
If your burning software allows, you can create a 'disk image' on your hard drive. .ISO extensions are common. If you can, then your burning software will probably let you 'copy' that to dvd as well.
But your best bet is to copy it from the original disk. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by stephent28:
That should solve the "cache" issue No, but a little cache might solve the computer issue. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | !!EITNU scixelsvD .leksaW ,eM etiB |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You guys just have puter envy. |
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Location: closely held secret | Maybe. But we also have choices when it comes to software...
Believe me, if there was more decent soft and hardware out there for it, I'd be running Linux at home. |
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Location: Midland, MI | What would you call 'more decent' software? I use SuSE 9.3 Pro on my laptop at work, although I admit that I have a VMWare Workstation session going with WinXP a lot of the time. But, that's only because the freaking firewall admin who swears he's my buddy won't set my Linux box up as a Secure NAT client, so I have to use the ISA Firewall Client under windows to get unfettered access to the world...oooh, sorry for the rant...anyway, I seem to do OK with OpenOffice.Org, Firefox and Evolution (for MSExchange...inbox, calendar, contacts). The *only* problem I have is that every time I upgrade the kernel, I have to do a 'make cloneconfig && make modules-prepare' or whatever it is in order for VMWare and Novell Client for Linux to play nice. As far as hardware, this is all running on an IBM T42 laptop, with no problems. It even recognizes my iPAQ and my USB thumb drive. |
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Location: closely held secret | Crusty, I was referring to software for what I primarily use my PC for - besides hanging out with other social misfits - which is audio recording, and audio and video editing. I have faith that more hardware and software is coming, but 'open source' seems to take a lot longer. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Ah, it is decidely lacking in the audio arena, that's fer sher. Hadn't even thought about that. And running in a VM session would be hell on the latency. Good call. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've just found that, in spite of my loathing of M$, there is currently no better platform than XP, when you take into account the choices available in software and hardware.
Macs do some things as well or better, like some audio and video editing. But there simply aren't enough software choices to suit me. I don't want to be a prisoner of a 5% market share.
My philosophy is, if it does what you want it to, it's the right computer for you. If it doesn't, get what does. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | .....well I found the problem...
these friggin Discs only have a 4.2 Gig capacity, not 4.7 as labeled....
Duh... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Must be special Mac discs. |
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Location: NJ | That's what you get for buying your electronic media at the Wa-Wa . . . .
(btw: if in fact they ARE Mac disks, they'll only work for you if you put on a black turtleneck) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Yep. That just screamed "capacity issue" alright. ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
.(btw: if in fact they ARE Mac disks, they'll only work for you if you put on a black turtleneck) ...and a goatee?
Beware of Philips 4.7gig DVD-Rs |
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Location: closely held secret | Jeff, that's pretty strange. They say 4.7 on the disks? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | yup |
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Location: closely held secret | "DVD-R & RW disks from the Finder can only be formatted as 4.2GB"
Try it in some burning software. |
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