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Handling 'stuck' DVD-R disk images in the Finder Desktop
If something goes wrong while burning a DVD-R using the Finder, the temporary disk image (4.3gb) that is created is usually left on the drive until the user reboots. You can use Disk Utility to Eject the disk (Options menu), which appears in the listing of drives. Doing this will immediately free up the disk space used by the image.

However, if you Mount (Options menu) the image, you can still burn the DVD without having to copy all the files to a new temporary image. After you mount the DVD image, insert a blank DVD-R and select Ignore when the dialog comes up asking what you wish to do with the DVD-R. You can then drag the previously mounted image to the Burn icon in the Dock and finish up.
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the image lives where?
Authored by: silicondiode on Feb 03, '03 10:34:26AM

does anyone know exactly where his image file is created (for CDs, DVDs, whatever...)?

i have OS X intalled on an 8GB partition and most of the time i have > 4.5GB free space - but sometimes, i do not and i would like to be able to \'redirect\' this image file to say, my home dir (on a 40GB partition...)



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the image lives where?
Authored by: greed on Feb 03, '03 10:59:38AM

IIRC, the file goes to .../Temporary Items/UID#/Cleanup At Startup
Where UID# is your POSIX UID, and "..." is either empty string, or /Volumes/SomeVolumeWithEnoughSpace.

At least, I found it would automatically switch volumes when the system volume was too full. This was a problem, because LaCie's old FireWire-IDE bridge (CDRW-8x4x16 era) and Maxtor's old FireWire-IDE bridge (original 80GB) do not play well with each other, and it kept putting the master image on the Maxtor FW drive.



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the image lives where? not there...
Authored by: silicondiode on Feb 03, '03 01:21:50PM

i can't find the file. does it have a common name or is it randomly generated?

i checked in every 501, Temporary Items, Cleanup At Startup, tmp folder on my system and every path with those names in them. i would think that it defaults to /tmp/501/Cleanup At Startup but all i have in that folder is com.phasic.PatchNub_00012080 weighing in a 20k...
the search continues...



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the image lives where?
Authored by: ncianca on Feb 03, '03 07:34:26PM

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem possible (without hacking the kernel) to move the location of this image since it lives as a /dev device (e.g. /dev/disk2s2) rather then an actual, user accessible disk file. That's why it's impossible to find the image on the filesystem as well because it doesn't exist as a regular file.



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