EMac won't burn cd

eMac G4 1200 running 10.5.7, standard internal cd burner
I don't think its the OS, tho I'm not sure if the PPC G4 was intended to run the most current version... bought it used.
Reads cds & DVDs ok.
Read the other posts here with similar problems, Cleaned the cd with a cleaner disk(little brushes) and use TDK 52X CDR's
Thought it might be Toast, so downloaded ExpressBurn- same result.
Repaired permissions, no improvement..
Error msg:
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR
Sense Code = 0x72, 0x02
SESSION FIXATION ERROR WRITING LEAD-OUT
Do you think my drive is broken?
Have an Apple store nearby... do they do repairs? Anybody have a repair place in the Chicago area that they trust?
Thanks for your help-Lance

Try a different brand of CDs. I have been getting some similar burn errors lately with some Verbatim CD-Rs lately, but my Office Depot-labeled CDs always seem to burn without an issue.

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EMac won't burn DVD

When I try to burn a DVD, an error message pops up that says "Startup disk is full (message error-34).
How do I remedy this?

Welcome To  Discussions dnewsman!
What size is the Hard Drive, and how much space is available?
Here is some additional information.
Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.
Depending on Mac system usage habits, it is a general recommendation, to keep 10% to as much as 20%, of the Total capacity, available at all times.
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Authored by Dr Smoke:
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space
Freeing Space On Your Mac OS X Startup Disk
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by Dr Smoke
Is the eMac shutdown overnight, or does it run 24/7?
Have you ever run any routine Maintenance procedures?
If you turn the PowerBook off nightly, the Background Maintenance Tasks, are never run.
These can also be run, using a Third-Party utility, or manually using Terminal, to run the CRON Commands.
I use MacJanitor, when necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RUN CRON MANUAL COMMANDS
Quit all applications/programs.
Navigate to HD > Applications > Utilities.
Double click on Terminal, to open.
At the prompt, type:
sudo periodic daily
Press Return.
Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
This will execute the daily script that is sheduled to run every night.
When completed, repeat this procedure, but change the command to:
sudo periodic weekly
This one rebuilds a database or two, and usually takes somewhat longer to complete. It is scheduled to run once a week.
Repeat again, with command:
sudo periodic monthly
Or they can all be run in one pass, which is preferable, with this command:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
When the tasks complete, and return to the prompt, you may quit Terminal.
Restart the Mac, and run Repair Permissions.
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun RP, until the only messages reported, are listed here
Spurious Permissions Errors Using: 10.3.x, authored by Michael Conniff.
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
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Since I updated my itunes I can't burn a disc in MP3 format. I converted the list to MP3 but it still won't burn., Since I updated my itunes I can't burn a disc in MP3 format. I converted the list to MP3 but it still won't burn.

Since I updated my itunes I can no longer burn a playlist to disc using MP3 format. I clicked on converting the songs to mp3 format but they still won't burn to disc. The computer says it is checking media and then stops.

same problem. Im using itunes version 10.6.3, I converted wavs burnt from cd, to mp3 using itunes, these were NOT PURCHASED from itunes, and when I try to burn an mp3 cd using the new mp3 files, they convert to wavs before my eyes every time i create a new playlist of the mp3. The mp3 revert to wav within less than 30 seconds. As if itunes is saying, let me help, I substitute the higher quality 1411 wav files for you. And of course, now they wont burn to mp3, because "they must be converted to mp3 first" before burning.
But every list of the mp3 version of the files keeps reverting to 1411 wav files?
WHats going on? Thanks

DVD / CD's won't burn in finder

SONY DVD RW DW-U10A
First: It doesn't acknowledge I've put a DVD in. Nothing. It keeps asking me to insert a disk.
Second: CD's won't burn in finder. They start for a couple of seconds and then they are rejected saying it's a "Power calibration area error 0x8002006D The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
- I can't find anything on that error code from Apple or Sony. I assume it can't read the disc for some reason and try a (2) cleaning discs. That didn't work.
- Disc utitilty says all my permissions are fine and I've got the disc space.
- I try different brands of discs - nope again (Sony, Maxell, Verbitim).
- Then I deleted the plist, rebooted. Not it either.
- Followed that with Onyx, deleted plist & rebooted again. Now I have to turn the power off to get it to reject. I can't delete 'untitled CD.fpbf' folder either.
- So then I try to burn a disc in ITunes and it works, but very slowly (4X).
- I figure the drive is starting to give out and just before I buy a new one, I sign into a guest account and guess what? It burns perfectly from finder and fast.
Now, why would a guest account make a difference?
I have no idea what to try next.
Thx for any suggestions.

replying to mandelinjo
no problem. happens to a number of folks (especially people used to the earlier versions of iTunes that didn't have so many diagnostics options.)
okay ... i'd like you to check in with Dell to confirm precisely which kind of Dell you have. there's updates available for the 2400 and the 2400C, and the updates for one may not be compatible with the updates for another. i don't want you to be installing incompatible updates.
these are the two different download areas:
Dimension 2400
Dimension 2400C
you also appear to have three different drives showing up on the same bus address:
IDE\DiskWDCWD800BB-75CAA0_____________________16.06V16, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomHL-DT-STCD-ROM_GCR-8481B_______________1.06___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomHL-DT-STCD-RW_GCE-8483B________________B105___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
SCSI\CdRomVO0524SEYM602D________2.0B, Bus Type SCSI, Bus Address [0,0]
... so it might be worth investigating with Dell whether or not that could be an issue on the PC. (they would be the authority on shifting bus addresses on your model of PC, if that is what is called for.)

Cd/dvd drive won't burn a disc,although it will read a cd

i have a compaq cq62 with windows 7 home premium with the cd/dvd drive won't burn a disc,although it will read a cd

Hi,
First, try the automated fixit from Microsoft on the link below.
Windows 7
Check if the drive will now burn a disc.
If it still doesn't work, click the Start Menu, open All Programs, open Accessories, right click the Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'. In to the prompt type the following command and hit enter.
sfc /scannow ( note that there is a space between sfc and the / )
Let the process complete, then type exit and hit enter.
Next, click the Start Menu, open the Control Panel and click on Device Manager. Next click to open DVD/CD-ROM Drives. Right click the drive and select uninstall. Do not delete drivers if asked. When the device has uninstalled click on the 'Scan for Hardware Changes' icon ( usually just below Help on the toolbar ). Let windows reinstall the drive and see if it is now able to burn a disc.
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Yosemite won't burn CD

I have a Mac Pro (Early 2009) power house. Since I upgraded to Yosemite (10.10) it now won't burn CDs – instead the program hangs. I load the CD, it recognises it's a blank CD, drag and drop the files, hit burn then nothing! I can't eject CDs in the usual way as it says a program is currently being used. Now that I have removed the CDs I am left with Alias folders that I cannot delete/remove.
My Mac Pro has two drives attached; my internal superdrive and an external Firewire 52x CD-R and it happens to both which eliminates the fact it's a hardware issue.
I bought in my MacBook Pro (Early 2011), also running Yosemite 10.10, and all is well. Burn CDs in the usual way.
Is there a patch?

Ignore Alias folders. They were locked. Unlocked and deleted. (Doh!)

Won't Burn. Error While Multiplexing. I've tried everything. Please help.

I've seen this topic all over the boards. I have iDVD6 and my project won't burn because, after a couple of hours of asset encoding et. al., I get a message saying that there were errors while multiplexing. Here's what it's not:
1) It's not that I have chapter markers in bad places. I followed the rules. Then I eliminated all the chapter markers.
2) It's not that the sound is Mpeg. It's properly formatted.
3) It's not too long. I get the same problem with a 60 second version of the movie. And I have plenty of space on my hard drive.
Here's what I thought it was:
1) The film was created with three cameras, at least one of which was using 12 bit sound and set on LP, two problems I've learned that iDVD doesn't like. However, to solve this problem I did the following:
a) I created a full quality Quicktime Movie
b) I imported that full quality Quicktime Movie into a new iMovie project.
c) I exported the movie back onto my video camera, with the camera set for 16 bit sound, and LP.
d) I opened a new iMovie project and imported the new, edited, film back onto my computer.
e) But when I tried importing it into iDVD6 I got the exact same message about the multiplexing error.
It doesn't seem possible that I cannot use iDVD to burn my project. Any thoughts?
(I don't have toast, and I don't know any other editing programs. I want to use iDVD and iMovie. That's what I paid for and they should work. I assume that since this problem is all over the Forum boards that there may be a bug in the program. Has anyone heard about a patch?)
Thank you to all who resond. Much appreciated.

Charlie,
Tell us about the computer you're using. See my specs below for guidance.
As John said, make a disk image and then burn the DVD.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
2) It's not that the sound is Mpeg. It's properly formatted.
What does "properly formatted" mean?
at least one of which was using 12 bit sound and set on LP, two problems I've learned that iDVD doesn't like.
As you've learned, that makes iDVD VERY unhappy.
e) But when I tried importing it into iDVD6 I got the exact same message about the multiplexing error.
You got the multiplexing error when importing into iDVD??? Or do you mean when encoding/burning direct to a DVD-R (not DVD+R or any other format)?

My eMac won't go to sleep

My eMac won't go to sleep automatically. I have to do it manually. I've tried reseting energy saving to default. No change. Also my screen saver doesn't appear. The screen will just go black. So I endup with a black screen while the computer just keeps running. It is very annoying. Anyone had the same problem?

This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
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"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
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I use iDVD on Lion, and it's my first time using this software. I love it so far, except it won't burn. I've tried twice now to burn a DVD and it gets stuck on the same part each time. It is after hitting burn, it processes the content for an hour or so and the progress bar is completely full and it ejects the disk. It doesn't complete the burn though, it gets stuck on "Multiplexing and Burning...", the progress bar remains full, and the time remaining says "about one minute". It doesn't go anywhere from here, even if I push the disc back in.
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My itunes won't burn playlist -i get 'an unknown error occurred' -why?

my itunes won't burn my playlists -i get 'an unknown error occurred' -why?
i just upgrtaded from an 80 to 160 GB, btw...
help!!!
thanks!

Hi insectsurfer,
If you are having issues burning a playlist to a CD in iTunes on your Windows machine, you may find the following articles helpful:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1436
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2372
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Ever since the latest update iDVD won't burn a disc. It says that there is no disc in the drive. I have tried TDK DVD-R and Verbatim DVD-R discs. This is ******* me off something fierce. Please help.

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Also a cold restart (all power off for 5 minutes) and zapping the PRAM and PMU can reset optical drives.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88275
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
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For some odd reason when I try to burn a playlist iTunes won't burn it. I get two errors one in the iTunes LCD window and a dialog box. Here are the links or images to what I am talking about.
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/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/170/1705916-2.jpg
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Hello,
I just went through all this stuff with another guy here.
We did eventually get his machine running again (it took a while, but we hit on the right answer for him).
But, rather than repeat the long and lengthy list of things we tried, I'm going to provide you with the link to our discussion.
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At the beginning, it will sound more like a complaint. But, it does evolve into a trouble-shooting and repair discussion.
I would recommend reading through the messages from the beginning, and working your way through the discussion.
As you proceed, try each of the ideas on your machine.
With any luck, one of the less dramatic options will work for you.
I hope you find an answer in there.
If you try all that, and still nothing works, then let us know.
I am not trying to "brush you off". But, it was an exhaustive process fixing his machine. And, everything I could offer to you to try would be listed in that discussion.
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Let me know how that works out for you. And, let me know if it works.
If it doesn't work, let me know what steps you did try so that I don't suggest something you have already done.
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Hi bite the bullet and bought a brand new imac (paid two times the price of a really nice PC) in hopes of owning a computer that would solve all my PC issues. Now that I have it at home I down loaded my family snow board trip from my camera and found out that it won't burn it to a DVD. What? Called tech support and yes it is true imac won't burn a DVD unless you buy ilife $49 and install it. Even the cheapest PC will burn a DVD this is really disappionting.I did see some free third party software and thought about trying it but I really hate to risk adding unauthorized software to my brand new computer. Is there hope on the way in the form of free update or is this what I get? Other than this I have enjoyed using it but this is really a major deficiency and a real disappointment.

I purchased the iLife 11 retail disk (I've seen it for as little as $25 at Amazon) because, in my opinion, there is no equivalent for iDVD's capabilities of adding pzazz to customizable menus/themes - taking your efforts from amateur to professional looking presentations.
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The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.
I have tried compressed air, restarting, updating software and have looked through this forum for possible solutions but everything I've tried hasn't worked.
I burnt a DVD yesterday with no issue and then updated my OSX last night and know it won't work.
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