I am also having a problem burning with the finder. "Saw a post about people having trouble burning in Tiger.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.ĭespite the deficiency in the Finder, several readers have reported that they are still able to burn media using third-party utilities like Toast or Apple's own Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities). You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. Some readers experiencing this problem have noted that resetting PRAM and NVRAM via the following process (as described in Apple Knowledge Base article #2238): After relaunching the Finder, some users report that the media shows up appropriately and can be successfully recorded. One solution involves inserting the CD, allowing the error message to pop up, then force quitting the Finder (either via the Apple menu "Force Quit" option, or by holding down the "option" and "control" keys in tandem, clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock and selecting "Relaunch"). (Error Code 0x80020025)" when a blank disc is inserted into a CD or DVD recorder and accessed via the Finder. This will create an on-the-fly copy, eliminating some of the aforementioned burn-error problems.Įrror message when attempting burns Under some circumstances, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) generates the error message "The disc cannot be used because the disc drive is not supported. 
"If you only have one account and you want to burn a backup of your own account's home folder, copy files to a disk image using Disk Utility first ( you can't copy files to your own desktop, because that would be a self-referential, infinitely recursive disaster, of course), and then burn that to a CD or DVD as appropriate."Īnother workaround involves holding down the "Option" key while you are dragging files to the media for burning. "If you want to burn a backup of a user's folder, log that user out, make a copy of his or her home folder in another (preferably administrative) account, and burn the disc using that folder in this account.
MacFixIt reader Drew Saur notes a couple of potential solutions to this problematic new set-up: Could not open the data fork of '' (-43)" "The operation could not be completed because one or more required items could not be found.This saves time, but also results in more failed burns (and wasted media), as well as errors such as the following: No more temporary backups resulting in failed burns Mac OS X 10.4 no longer creates temporary backups of the data that is being burned to media.
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