[Tom_Diola]

Actually I was encouraged by the way the whole thing started out: I plopped in a Blank CD-R and hit the OK button as usual. Fired up iphoto and hit the Burn button and then started marking Albums and this little indicator started adding up the amount of Megabytes each Album had and then I got to within 80MB I stopped and then it went into this long drawn out thing of 'Preparing to burn . . .' which after 1.5 hours started to worry me so I aborted it.

[Grant_G]

My iPhoto library measures 643.5 MB according to the Info window, so decided I would try too. Just the right size for a CDR.
NOTHING WORKS! The burn button turns into a pulsating nuclear warning sign (went on for 3 hours before I stopped it). I checked the CDR and it was still blank. So I tried iPhoto > File > Export ... and clicked the Toast tab, then export. Nothing happened, although Toast was open and a good CDR was in the burner.
Time for a few bug reports to Apple?
G
P.S. - Hey Rob, is this "back on topic enough" for ya? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[griffman]

Hey, this thread was always on topic! It was me answering your question in the other one that was ... ... oh wait, never mind, or I'll send this thread off topic, too /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.
I'll test my iPhoto again tonight and see if there's anythign notable about the process.
-rob.

[Tom_Diola]

Hi I changed the Preferences from Border to Drop Shadow and iPhoto seems to boot faster.
It looks like if I do 1,000 photos it takes about 15 mins and looks like it works fine. I inserted the CD-R into my machine and it boots iphoto and reads the CD-R just fine.

[Grant_G]

Okay, but how did you make "burn" work (see my post above)? I haven't tried yet again this morning but don't expect anything's changed since yesterday. BTW I'm using an external FireWire burner, but the system and Toast 5.1 both find it okay. My iPhoto is v.2.0.
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[Tom_Diola]

This month's Macworld there is something about archiving iphoto libraries on page 68 I think - The Article covers lots of stuff about photography and I just happened to open up the exact page where they talk about archiving this morning at 5:15 AM. They mention trashing a folder after archiving the Albums.

[Grant_G]

I just opened Toast again, then iPhoto and tried to Export. Nothing. So I thought I would try the burn button again. This time it opened the drawer to the external CD-RW drive and told me to insert a blank CD. I did so and closed the door. The warning went off automatically and this time I could hear the CD spin up. I still have the pulsating thingy in iPhoto, and the CD-RW's flashing light is not flashing as it would using Toast, but I think I see progress. I'll report back.
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[Grant_G]

An hour and forty minutes later, and the light is still flashing strangely, iPhoto is still going nuclear, and I think nothing is happening. About 10 minutes after the last post it sounded like the CD spinned down and I've heard nothing from the burner since. Any ideas?
G
[Edit] Never mind. I went back into iPhoto to try to figure out how to get the "burn" to stop. No way I guess. So instead for whatever reason I put the cursor on top of the pulsating button and clicked, but this time I held it down for a second or two. I window opened up asking if I want to burn the entire library. I clicked "yes" and now it is creating the disk image. I'll report further progress.

[Grant_G]

Success! Is that all it was -- that I "clicked" on the burn button instead of giving it a good hard nudge? Lessons learned the hard way. Anyway, from now on if anyone asks why the burn button doesn't work, I'll know what to tell them.
G /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[griffman]

I think you have to click burn twice -- once to get it to take the CD-R, once to start burning...
-rob.

[Grant_G]

Duh (slaps side of head with palm). I didn't pay close enough attention to the article in MW this month ... it clearly says to click it twice. But just as clearly there was a problem yesterday, in that it never asked that I insert a blank CD. Had it done that as it did everytime today -- whether one was already in the burner or not -- I would probably have figured it out easier.
But it's done now (I made two as suggested in the article and both have tested 100%), and I have gained almost a gig on my 20 GB drive. Of course the way my wife and I take pix, it won't be long before I have another 650 MB of them ready to burn. Probably about a year, maybe less.
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