Burning stops in idvd 6

Hi
I am currently trying to burn a 110 minute movie using idvd6, when it gets half way through the actual burning process (after all encoding etc has been done) i get the spinning beachball? I cant work out what the problem is - The mac is old but I have successfully burnt 105 min movies before and haven't ever had the spinning beachball. I have a double layer burner and am using verbatim discs? any suggestions?
Thanks
Nikki

Welcome NikkiAH
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The first item that comes to mind is lack of Hard Drive space. How much HD space is currently remaining on the startup HD?
What kind of media are you using? I recommend Verbatim / Maxell and burning from a disc image at 4x or slower using apple's disc utilities or roxio toast. Is this what you are doing?
If you have good DVD-R media and at least 25GB's of HD space on the boot volume (startup drive) and it's still not working, then please drag and drop the plist for iDvd to the trash and resart the computer.
com.apple.iDvd.plist

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from Robert Modero.
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