Deleting files after making a DVD
Once I have a .dvdproj file, and I have burned a disc, I can delete all files relating to it and go back and burn another disc if I live this file right?
Absolutely not!!!
Your iDVD project is just a container with pointers to the actual media used in the project. If you change, move, rename or delete the iMovie, photos or audio clips used in the project, you will lose the project because iDVD will not be able to locate the needed files.
To save your project for another burn, don't delete anything until you make a disk image file of your project. You do this from within your iDVD project.
Open your project and select File->Save as Disk Image. You will need to specify where to save the disk image file. I usually save mine to the desktop so that I can test it, but you can save it anywhere you want.
The process looks just like the burn process, and will take just as long for the encoding, but the end result is a disk image file, not a burned DVD disk:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
Once the disk image file has been created, click on it to mount it and open your DVD Player application. The 'disk' will play and you can check to see that it is ok.
Now, you have an exact copy of your iDVD project, with all the needed media files encoded into it.
You can NOW safely delete all the files used in it without losing the ability to burn DVDs of this project whenever you want. The disk image file is a great backup for your iDVD projects and generally takes up much less drive space. It can also be moved to another drive or computer.
You burn more DVDs from the disk image file using Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8729.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2087?viewlocale=en_US
Post back if any of this is not clear or if you have further questions.
By the way, if you have already deleted the files and would like to create a disk image file for future burning of disks, you can do this from a burned DVD disk itself.
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