[MacDV] Toast/copying DVD-R

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, January 6, 2005, at 09:20  PM, lanny cotler wrote:

> James Asherman <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:
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>> So, since write speed and underrun protection are not noteworthy, we 
>> must assume the guise of Hemlock Solmes and deduce the cause of these 
>> errors.
>>  Firstly I would say that in the Toasting upgrades I have kept quite 
>> a few versions and using one of the 5.xx versions might work better.
>>  Also I am reminded of  the case of the queasy iMac.
>> A gentleman called saying that, while running FCP on his one drive 
>> iMac it would stop capture after two minutes, with a "disc full" 
>> message, despite the fact that he had 20 gigs left on his drive.
>>  I asked if he had saved anything since last it worked. Why yes he 
>> had, a song he saved from the last job.
>>  "Delete that", said I ." and your problems will vanish". And they 
>> did due to the fact that we had "speed disked" his disk to have 
>> contiguous free space previously.
>>  So , your problem Lanny, might be that your disc is fragmented.
>> Jim
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> Okay, Jim, what do you mean "...we had 'speed disked' his disk to have 
> contiguous free space previously"? If there were 20 gigs 
> available.......??
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> What is the best way to de-frag my drive? Just the boot drive, or all 
> partitions on that drive?
>
> thanks
> L
>

Norton Speed disk. Or some other appropriate defragmenting optimizer.
Don't use disk doctor , just speed disk.
Mostly the boot drive, and whatever area you assign to those "converted 
items".
You need this. I am not partial to partitions, but make sure you have a 
nice big one for the Boot. Because these conversions of 4 gig take at 
least 4 gig  open to do, and also you have to account for memory 
swappage and so forth. Meanwhile a small file in the middle of 
otherwise blankspace (which you ain't got anyhow) will stop the whole 
show as in the "case of the queasy iMac".