MacBook Disk Burn: Close enough?

Could you tell me what the errors says?
Also, what kind of file are you trying to burn?

Sorry. It was a 7 or 8 digit number combo, but I didn’t write it down. Some kind of disk error or disk read error.

It’s a data file folder that contains multiple documents including .m4a files, .jpg files and office document files.

I’m in the middle of another burn, and it’s verifying now. Hopefully, it will go all the way.

Try running a search on the error number if you get it again.
Also, keep in mind that a file size on your hard drive is not the same size on a dvd: some space is used for formatting. Probably isn’t your problem, but just putting it out there.

Multitasking heavily can causes burning errors, as can burning at the highest write speed. You may also be buring bad dvds (poor quality) and had bad enough luck to run into two in a row.

I think that if you get an error during the verification, it means that something went wrong when it was writing to the disk.

Cool. It worked on the third try. Maybe it was the media. Thanks for the suggestions. Next time I’ll look up the error.

I doubt it was the media, I just put that foward because depending on how you burn a media file, you have a maximum number of minutes or a maximum amount of space. this means that you can have a very long but low quality movie which will fit on a disk as data, but not in a way that would be playable like a normal dvd.

@kevbo I have had problems with media before—especially generic DVD’s.

Thanks @andrew. These were Sony’s from Costco, but it sounds like the process is not always automagic.

I was concerned (of course) about whether my drive was going down.