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Just to say that I've seen the exact same problem myself. I mean, what could be a more obvious use for a burn folder than to make an optical disk backup of the whole of /Users? Especially if you have a Superdrive!
But, some research turned up that you can only do this if logged in as root user (suggesting that it's somehow a permissions thing?), but that's contrary to what I need for this machine, as it's going to be used by people who don't know Mac and don't really know anything about system management and so on, but DO need a neat and simple way to make backups of their own data. But, I won't want to be giving them root access - lest I make a rod for my own back every time they screw the system up!
Must admit, when I was trying this I was using DVD-RWs, and found that simply going into Disk Utility and erasing them made them perfectly re-usable, so you might care to try that, zaggle, and recover a few coasters! Warning, it can take quite a while for Disk Utility to 'accept' the disc and display it in the drive list - just be patient.
Anyway, for my problem, I'm already off down the CarbonCopyCloner route, as ecirtap has suggested, which, IIRC, will at least enable the backup process to be rather more automated.
But, let me finish up with a bit more info. You can't burn the entire Library folder, using burn folder, because it throws up the -43 file not found error. So, then I tried dragging all of the folders IN ~/Library into a burn folder. Sure enough, again the same error. Attempting to track down the location of the precise file causing the problem, I then tried again using the first half of the folders in ~/Library - and no problem. Yeah, I thought, so the 'bad' file is in the second half of the folders! So, I tried them. Guess what, no problem!
That's right - I can burn one half of the folders in ~/Library using a burn folder, or I can burn the other half, but try burning all of them at the same time and up comes the -43 error!
Strange? Or what?
(BTW - no, it's not anything to do with the hidden (dotted) files - as the 'tech' at AppleCare has said......)
But, it's not just down to the total size of the burn folder contents either, as I've proven by successfully burning a copy of my Music folder - which is already MUCH bigger than ~/Library!
Anyone got new thoughts?
Nigel
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