Hard drive disk space for DVD processing

I have only a few Gb available on my boot drive but I have a large external hard drive with over 300 Gb free space on which I have my DVD projects. I get the error message that my drive does not contain enough space for burn processing. Is there any way to tell iDVD to use the external drive for this, since it has more than enough space?

Is there any way to tell iDVD to use the external drive for this, since it has more than enough space?
No -- and by the way, if you only have 'a few Gb available' on your boot drive, you may possible get into problems with the OS. The general rule of thumb is to keep from 10% to 15% of your boot hard drive free for OS use.

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