DOES BURNING DVD'S EAT UP DRIVE SPACE?

Hello people, I am having a small problem, can someone please help? Well the thing is that every time I burn a new DVD using iDVD I notice that it eats up my hard drive space. After I am done with the burning I make sure to delete the iDVD file that I worked on but my drive still stays full. Right before pressing the burn button I also save it to my external drive so that it wont take up space on my main drive but that still doesn't work. What should I do? My drive is full, plese help.

You need to free up some drive space in order to have a computer function properly. As soon as you have some good amount of available disk space, your troubles should be over. Try burning your DVD's from the Firewire drive instead, but you still need that free space in your boot drive. A full Hard Drive is like a clogged drain, you need to get rid of the stuff blocking it from doing its job.

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