Burning a DVD from a external Harddrive..

      I'm trying to burn some folders of images that are stored on my external HD on to a DVD.
      I was using Toast to do all my CD/DVD burning in the past, but with Mountain Lion I just use the burning feature for music.
      When I drag the files over from the external HD on to the DVD it creates alias of the original files. In the process, I've edited the alias contents
     and then see that what I delete in the alias ALSO gets deleted from the original folder!! Luckily I have a 2nd back up to retreive wht was deleted
      but at the same time when I attempt to burn the DVD of what I have (alias) I get a error message saying it can't burn the DVD beause the alias can
     not find the original content? Which is odd as I have the external HD still mounted on the desktop so the OS can read where the original files are coming
     from.
     Is this the way the OS burns information from other sources by creating a alias from the original file?
     I never saw aliases created when I used Toast. The way I understood it would create a copy of the original file and burn all it's original contents from that.
     Somewhere, I'm missing a step here with OS ML that seems to create alias instead of copies from the original file.
     I'll have to burn a few DVDs as I have a few GB's of files to burn.
     I'm heading to work and will check back this evening..  PST
     Always appreciate the support here! Thank you in advance 
     ~A~

Atcandela wrote:
   Actually, I think the issue was creating a folder on the desktop to place the files/images into to begin with.
    By dragging the files from the external HD on to the DVD was just creating "alias" without the information being
   transferred over.
That's the way burning to DVD works on OS X. It creates an alias into the burn folder. When it burns, it resolves the aliases. However, I don't know if there is a bug that prevents it from resolving across volume boundaries. As I stated, I don't burn often, so I've never tested that.
When you burn an image to disk, it will burn the contents to the disk.  If you just drag the image to a blank disk, it will burn the image itself, not the contents of the image. To burn the image, Choose Burn… from the Images menu and it will ask you to find the image.  If the image is in the Disk Utility sidebar, you can select it then click Burn button.

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