[MacDV] Toast/copying DVD-R

[lanny cotler]

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


Okay, Jim, what do you mean "...we had 'speed disked' his disk to 
have contiguous free space previously"? If there were 20 gigs 
available.......??

What is the best way to de-frag my drive? Just the boot drive, or all 
partitions on that drive?

thanks
L