We have run out of space on our laptop. What would be the best way to store info/pictures/video aside from Time Machine? Is there an easy way to transfer data to an external hard drive or should I begin to burn CD of the data?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I used Handbrake to rip encode the dvd to mp4. Now I want to burn it to a DVD for a cheap backup.
mp4 is 1.4gb
I keep getting an error saying the data I'm trying to burn is over 4 gb's and too big for my blank disc. How's that possible?
Shouldn't I be able to burn the mp4 to a dvd easily in iDVD?
I tried to burn 1.4GB of data on a 4.7GB blank DVD using Finder but got an error message saying "file is too large to fit on the disc. Remove some files an try again". I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
I finally got IPartition, and I have the Corolis CDMaker. But when I try to burn, it says there isn't enough space. When I look closer, I see that I will need 2315 MB of space on my CD to burn it. I'm on an Emac without a DVD burner. This is basically a slap to the face. Is something wrong? How can iPartition, which is around 19MB big, require that much space on a CD to burn? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I understand I'm supposed to drag the program to Corolis CDMaker, then hit Burn. Btw, I'm on OSX Tiger.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), OS reinstall
I recently burned a project to DVD. It's a data disc, and seems to have worked fine, about 1.2 GB of the four available on the DVD-R I burned with a Superdrive on my G4 desktop.
I told it to write session in Toast 7 Titanium, but when i try to burn something else to the disc, Toast rejects it. With DVD's, can you only burn one data disc? No multiple sessions? It's okay if this is the case, I just want to know.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 4GB SDRAM; 500GB HD
I have a 2011 MBP with a 250GB HDD. When I open the HDD in "Finder" it shows the following:FolderSizeUsers151.18 GBApplications13.97 GBLibrary10.79 GBSystem5.69 GBSpam6 KBUsers Guides and Information60 BÂ
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To accomplish putting my OS on only 120GB of hard drive, I've made symbolic links for most of the folders in my ~/ folder
This is what the ~/ Folder looks like on my Macintosh HD partition
 This is where these files are actually located
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MacBook Pro, iOS 8.1.1
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I have the MacBook Pro 2010 13" and recently I've noticed my disc space is slowly decreasing with use.
Im not downloading files or anything, but today I lost around 600 MB of space, I just kept opening my Finder to discover less and less disc space each time.
Is this normal or do I have a problem, this is the first time I've noticed it in the month and a half I've owned the machine.
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So, I want these dvd-videos in Video_ts format, to be burned in dvd disks using toast. It is supposed that video_ts folder are a standard folder, no matter the system you use. But toast has a different opinion. When I drag the folder in the dvd-video window, it asks to re-encode the video!!!If I try to burn this video_ts folder in windows machine using 'nero', no problem at all, straight burning! I really cannot understand why this happens.
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This is my burner:
LG GH22LP20
G5 PowerMac
10.5.5
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
