Burned cd's won't work

I burned two CD's on my roomate's computer (not the same video on both) with a couple of AVI movies that, while on my hard drive, worked just fine.
I burned the CD and it mounted on my system fine, but VLC couldn't read it. It's not VLC's problem because I Couldn't even copy the data back to my hard drive. I got a READ error.
I burned it using GnomeBaker on a Linux system. In the burning options, filesystems Joliet and Rockridge were both checked. Although I'm positive that ROckridge isn't one that would work in OS X, Joliet should (I'm certain).
However, some other testing proved that it's not a matter of the filesystem... I couldn't even mount these CDs on the original Linux computer.
I'm not going to be hasty and say it's crappy CD at fault here; they're a 'normal' brand

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Hi,
I just installed iLife 09 and decided to do burn a DVD in iPhoto 09 to backup some old photos. I chose a folder full of albums to burn to DVD and selected 'burn' and everything seemed to work fine. But when I load the finished DVD into iphoto 09, it shows up in the list, but it shows up as having no photos on it. When I look through the disc in the finder, the pictures are there, but for some reason iphoto won't display the photos or albums. Has this happened to anyone else?
Thanks,
Chief

Terrance,
I never mentioned the thumbnail images because their is no thumbnail folder nor is their a thumbnail data file. One thing I didn't mention was that the images also appear in a folder titled "data". The ONLY thumbnails that appear in iPhoto when the disk is selected are those of the pictures I chose to burn. ALL OTHER images (thumbnails) in the 12,000+ database of mine are missing but each of those 12,000 has a placeholder and all the data associated with the picture (descriptions, etc).
Let's go over this to see if I can clear it up for you...or you could just try burning a disk of your own in iPhoto '09 to see what I'm talking about.
Select pictures from iPhoto and then select "Burn." The iPhoto disk that now results will appear in iPhoto on the left sidebar beneath "LIBRARY" & "RECENTS" as "SHARES."
Select the disk in the sidebar and what you will see in the main iPhoto window is the EXACT same thing you would see if you selected "Photos" under the "LIBRARY" in the sidebar SANS the images. In place of the images you will see boxes, placeholder boxes. All the titles and keywords (if you have that selected) will appear. The ONLY pictures that will show up in this view will be the ones I had selected to burn. Good luck finding them among the 12,000 plus placeholders. If you do find them, double clicking on the picture will do what you have chosen for double-click. The enlarged image will take a few seconds to clear as the disk has to spin up.
I hope that gives you a better "picture." Just try it yourself. If you have an older version of iPhoto you will get a disk that is very usable as it only has the images and data from the pictures you select AND that data and images are drag and drop. This one is pretty worthless. Just finding the images on the disk is impossible and the data doesn't drag & drop with the pictures.
Hope that is a better explanation.
Fight On!

TS1277 after installing itunes, my computer won't recognize my cdrom/burner any longer. Worked ok before and I have uninstalled itunes and it works again and when I reinstall itunes it won't work again. I have also went into registry files and deleted

After installing itunes, my desktop computer doesn't recognize my internal cd rom/burner. I removed itunes and it works ok and when I reinstall itunes it won't work again. I went into the windows registry files and deleted the lower filter which is one correction for this and it worked ok until the next itunes upgrade and now it won't work again. If anyone knows what to do please let me know. My device manager shows a code "10"

My device manager shows a code "10"
That suggests an AFS.sys issue. But we'd better doublecheck.
Could you post your diagnostics for us please?
In iTunes, go "Help > Run Diagnostics". (If you're running iTunes 11.0.x you'll need to bring up your menu bar first to see the Help menu.) Uncheck the boxes other than DVD/CD tests, as per the following screenshot:
... and click "Next".
When you get through to the final screen:
... click the "Copy to Clipboard" button and paste the diagnostics into a reply here. (Use your Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut to paste.)

HT203164 My newly installed burner works fine from i-tunes, except the burned disk won't work in my car CD player. The old burner's disks work just fine in the car. Please help.

My newly installed burner works fine from i-tunes, except the burned disk won't work in my car CD player. The old burner's work just fine in the car. Please help.

Using my new G5 I have the same problem, which I did not know using my old G4 with an external LaCie burner. The CD-Changer in my car is not able to read audio-cds, also my cd-player in my home hifi-system. The only way to play these audio-cds is (strange...) to put them directly in the main tuner of my car (usually used for the navigation cd), not using the Changer.
Maybe the problem really depends on the quality of the CD-Rs. I have used CD-Rs from Sony (it´s a brand, I think?) and will try Verbatim.
Regards, Horst

ITunes asking for reinstall and still won't work with win 7?

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Hooray hooray hooray! So many times we never hear back what happens and it just makes my day to know when something works!
I will investigate why hp doesn't make this solution easier to find. Thanks again for your response!
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New PC - rezipped all music - most won't work. Help?

Can anyone help?
Bought a new PC (using XP Home). Had to set up new iTunes library, so re-zipped all my CDs. Now, 95% of my 2,800 songs have an exclamation mark next them and they won't work. If I try to play them from the PC, the message "Cannot be used because the original file cannot be found". This includes 24 of my 34 "Purchased from iTunes" songs!
I can't believe it - am SO disappointed. Just downloaded/installed the new software upgrade - makes no difference.

I took it to mean that he was working with a blank CD. The drive acts as expected if he is inserting a blank CD and does not have burn capability.
One would think that it probably should read CD's, but it may not be so. The drive may be totally incompatible if you're trying to use a Combo drive without appropriate firmware. I'm not sure about that.
Susan, take a look at this thread, will you?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=653877&tstart=0
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Installed itunes 6 and now CD/DVD drive won't work at all

I just bought a new ipod and installed the software and now my CD/DVD drive won't work at all. Here is my info: Could someone please help!!!
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Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 5160
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CD Driver 2.0.4.3
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IDE\DiskFUJITSUMHT2080AH_______________________006C___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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SCSI\CdRomROXIO__DVD-ROM_EMULATOR___, Bus Type SCSI, Bus Address [0,0]
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D: SONY DVD+-RW DW-D56A, Rev PDS7
Drive is empty.
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Drive is empty.
If anyone has a solution for this stupid problem that would be great.
Thanks

Yes, I suspect that it's the virtual drive emulator software you have there. I know nothing about that software and it doesn't look like the Roxio support page even mentions it, so it's probably software old enough that they're not supporting it anymore.
To uninstall any software, I would start with the "Add and Remove Programs" Control Panel. Uninstall it there, and then use the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility —
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=290301
Download and install that. Run it and find the drive emulator software on the list and remove it there. And reboot and see if that has successfully removed it.
There is a work around that if we just remove the iTunes CD driver, you'll probably get your drive back, but you'll only be able to rip CDs, you won't be able to burn them without the iTunes CD driver installed. You do have some Pinnacle CD burning software installed. Are you currently using that or is that leftover cruft as well?

Adobe CS5 Eraser tool won't work

My eraser tool won't work on any adjustment layers I add. It will erase on a background copy but not on a curves or black and white layer. It's strange because my brush tools are working and the eraser tool has been working up until now. It's not even showing up on the thumbnail image and my opacity is set to 100 % and I have tried pencil, block and brush tool. The burn and doge tools won't work either.
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So, now my CD/DVD drive won't work

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Made an appointment with the Apple Store, (at least I live near a store), and they went through all the diagnostics and said, "There is nothing wrong with your hard drive yet we are unable to install the upgrade ... meaning that my computer will not function. I had to buy a new hard drive and have them install LION on it.   Before I left the store I told the tech guy that I'd like to turn it on to make sure it would work ... guess what ... it wouldn't.   "I can't understand it", he said, "It was working just fine a few minutes ago."   I had him try it a few more times and then he advised me that they'd have to do it again and for me to come back (again).
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(Plus I've had to create a new MAC ID?   Why won't it accept my old account ID?)

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Multi-angle won't work..please help!

This problem is using version 2.0.0 (sorry, I hope someone out there still remembers) and has been replicated on two seperate computers. The first is an ibook g4 1.33ghz with 512 ram...the second a dual g5 2.0 ghz with a 2 gigs of ram. The problem occurs during the build. On the g4 the problem crashes the program, on the g5 there is a internal muxer error and the build process cannot complete. I first noticed the problem with a big project that was mostly audio with slide shows...so I stripped it down to the bare essentials and the problem is still there. This is what I do: new project> import 3 aiff files (16bit/48khz) and 2 jpg images > copy the first jpg into a slide show 3 times and add one aiff to each slot > convert to track > add the second jpg into video track 2 under each of the first jpg's (the size auto-matches) > make basic menu to start playback of slideshow > simulation works fine, angle switches fine > crashes or stops on build (depending on computer using)
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Thanks

Ok thanks for the help... I don't know how helpful it will be though... let me explain what I'm trying to do, which will explain why some of your suggestions wouldn't work. I record live concerts and I'm just trying to fit a full concert onto a dvd. I would like chapter markers at the beggining of every track, though I would like absolutly no pauses between tracks (tracks have been cut to cd sector boundries of 1/75 second, which seems to work fine on DVD even after converting from 44.1 to 48. ). I would like 2 menus ... a welcome screen and a setlist screen linked to each song. I would like the show to play in it's entirty with a bands logo on the screen (which is the first JPG) and have the second angle just black (to save tv sets from frying). If the show is 20 songs then I create a 20 slot slide show with the bands logo and the 20 songs. I then covert this to a track...as this is the only way to add an alternative angle. If I don't add 2nd angle of black, the burn goes fine, if I do then it crashes.
Now if I were to encode the jpg's to mpeg2 before adding to the project this would mean I need over 3 hours of each, cut in 20 different spots that correspond exactly to the audio.
Now the quality of the audio is very important to me so I'm not willin to use any lossy compression scheme. The whole disc is really just for listening too and is of an audiophile nature. Now I understand AC3 does a pretty good job, which is fine for movies, but for my purposes I need it to be exact. So this means I would have to fit the 3 gigs of audio along with 6 HOURS of mpeg2 video encoded from the 2 simple jpg images that take up less than a mb themselves. This is simply too much data, I can't fit it onto the DVD.
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DVD created in iDVD won't work in Mavericks

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I have a LaserJet Pro CM1415fn color MFP on a Windows 7 64-bit laptop. I've been using the printer for two years now.
At the moment the fax function only works if I use it manually (i.e. if I place a sheet of paper on the scanner, select the "Fax" button on the printer touch pad and dial the number). However, if I want to send a fax via the PC interface, it won't work.
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If this just recently happened, I would do a System Restore back to when everything was working properly.
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Test the printer and try sending a fax again from the PC.
Then you will need to go back in and enable the start up programs and turn the Antivirus Software back on again.
If you need further assistance, just let me know.
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OK, I opened a question that never got answered and it never was resolved...
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I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro fully up to date..
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2013 Pro (I have an Office 365 subscription so it's the click-to-run install).
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OK... so this is what it looks like... as you can see the toolbar loads, but no icons...
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This was all working perfectly up until out of nowhere it stopped working on January 26, 2015. See my original posting here: Acrobat XI Pro Word 2013 add-in stopped working
I can Print to PDF using the PDF Printer without any problems.
Creating a PDF in Outlook, no problems...
I'm hoping somebody can figure this one out... I'm completely stumped.... and I'm usually very good at troubleshooting stuff.

Click to Run according to Microsoft:
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