iDVD locking up

Paul C

Paul C

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Whenever I try to a DVD in iDVD it locks my mac after about 30 seconds, I've only got about 8gb left on my system drive (but loads of room on my second drive) so could that be the problem maybe?
 
Still having this problem guys, I have moved Tiger to my 120gb drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and recreated the iDVD project but everything still freezes when I try to burn it to DVD, the mouse still moves but nothing responds and I have to reboot my machine. It's annoying me as I'm burning digi footage of my friends 4 month old baby :(

Help please!
 
I am experiencing also. My searching of the net indicates a conflict with Tiger and all versions of iDVD although version 5 might work better. There are several things to try including deleting the preferences file, clearing caches, increasing the size of your hard drive (which you tried). I have not tried all these yet and I would have to re-search to find the details (exactly which file is the iDVD plist file - apple.com.idvd.plist I think).

In iDVD 5 you can burn to a file instead of a DVD. In lower versions there is an easter egg for doing the same thing (details are on my other computer), but if you search you should find. Then you can use the Disk Utility to copy the DVD file onto a blank DVD, and this works. So if you can get it to run once you should be good for multiple copies. I spent an entire day making 10 copies between all the quits.
 
Thanks Cam, I'll try some of these when I get back from work tonight, reason it's annoying me so much is I bought iLife 05 last Thursday with one of the reasons to use iDVD but it won't burn, grrrrr.

Thanks again and good luck :)
 
Just to let you know using the "burn to disk" worked well for me. No crash of iDVD and then I was able to use Disk Utilities to burn the DVD itself, multiple times.
 
I can't get iDvd to work and to be honest I haven't got the time to be messing about with it. :(
 
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