MacBook destroying my dvd's (lame)

Well my Macbook finally ****** me off for the first time, I tried creating a photo dvd just by dragging a folder of pictures on my desktop into the dvd using finder. It gave me an error that it had a problem communicating with the disc drive after like 5 minutes and ruined my dvd...

Yes I know +RW is 'failsafe' in that way ...
The safest way to burn items like that to 'write once disc' is to create a Folder on your hard drive and drop the selection(s) into that and then from the Finder select the Folder and > Burn "foldername" to Disc

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