Burning Aperture versions to disk error

I have been burning small Aperture 3 projects to disk to send to friends. Suddenly I got an error message for a small file (53 photos) that I was attempting to burn to a CD after I just burned 72 photos to another disc successfully. Here is the error message: The disc can't be burned because an unexpected error occurred (error code Ox80020000). I tried to make a new burn file and retry with a new disk. That did not work either. After trial and error I managed to burn a few of the pictures, but trying to find the "bad" ones is a nightmare - if in fact it is a case of a bad jpg file. What is happening and can it be fixed?

Is this the internal drive or an external? Stock Mac drive? Where are you seeing the error message? Did you look in the console logs to see if there was anymore information?
When you write
have been burning small Aperture 3 projects to disk
Do you really mean you are exporting projects from Aperture and writing those to disk or do you mean you're exporting images from the project and writing those to disk?
You tried a new disk which and got the same error. Did you try a different set of images/projects? Best would be to go back to one of the sets of images/projects that worked and try those again. The disk drive may have developed an error in the time since you last successfully used it and now.

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