Suddenly ending creating DVD image without warning

I have had a look through the search facility in this form, but to no avail on this subject; so -
does anyone have any suggestions, why when I try to create a DVD image in iDVD, it gets a fraction of the way through, and then comes to an abrupt end and disappears from the screen? It doesn't leave any indication of what was the problem, nor any part completed image file.
Bill
UK
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How much available hard drive space is remaining on the startup volume? If you have over 20 GB's and this still happens then drag and drop the plist for iDVD to the trash. empty the trash and restart the computer.
do a search in the finder for the following item:
com.apple.iDvd.plist
(use copy and paste to the finder and then dispose of this item/s)
also please take the time now to repair permissions on your HD.

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