Burn Folder not as big as it thinks it is

I have a Burn Folder which contains most of (but not all) my Documents folder. A total of about 4.4GB according to the Finder. When I try and burn to a 4.7GB DVD it complains that there isn't enough room. If I then try Toast 6 I can burn the whole Documents folder which is around 4.5GB to the same DVD.
What is going on here?

Thanks. I agree they are not interpreting the free space the same but more to the point perhaps is that the Finder is wrong -- is there anything that can be done to make it read the space correctly ? Burn Folders are a neat idea but not much use if they are going to do this.
Thanks - Michael

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Hi h, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Have you tried dragging it to the desktop? Should go up in a puff of smoke. If that doesn't do it, restart and try again. If that doesn't do it, do a PRAM reset and try again.
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I agrre about the uncute commercials, but since you're working with "legal" stuff, perhaps you can tell me the last time, or approximate era, that a commercial had more than an extreme stretch of... uh-hmmm, the "truth" in it!?
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Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/index.html

I can't move photos from iPhoto to my secondary hard drive or to a burn folder. I have never had a problem with this before. This is something new.   They will not drop into either folder. Nothing happens.

I can't move photos from iPhoto to my secondary hard drive or to a burn folder. I have never had a problem with this before. This is something new.   They will not drop into either folder. Nothing happens.
I checked my secondary harddrive and there is plenty of memory.
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230 photos is the maximum size of the events I am trying to move from iPhoto to save elsewhere.
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My Lacie External Harddrive (2TB capacity) shows that I have 1.79TB available. It shows that 207,729,520,640 bytes (207.73 GB on disk) are used.
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Wouldn't you know that my Apple Care Plan runs out this Wednesday?! I need to make sure everything is working properly before that expires.
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the problem seems to be the audio. Give us a little more info on what audio you used in the iMovie project (original audio, music, MP3, Aiff...).
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