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Q: iDVD on Lion does not recognize the Super Drive as supported?

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Sorry, if this has been answered before, but I could not find a similar post:

 

Since I upgraded to Lion I have the following problem: On both my MacBook Pros iDVD does not recognize the optical Superdrive as supported, while the Finder and Disk Utility have no problem to burn DVD-R dvds.  If I export the finished project from iDVD as disk image and then use Disk Utility to burn the image to DVD, the resulting video DVD plays fine on any Mac ind DVD player, but iDVD refuses to use the optical drive.

 

Are there any settings in Lion or iDVD that I need to change, so that iDVD will be able to recognize the optical drives in my MBPs as supported under Lion? With SnowLeopard I never had a problem on a MacBook Pro with a similar model.

 

Regards

Léonie

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.4 GHz I.Core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 10:00 AM

by mishmumken,Solvedanswer
mishmumken mishmumken
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A:

My take is that it is Lion that is doing this since you report that your drive is acknowleged in System Profiler and you can burn from Disk Utility.

 

 

leonieDF wrote:

 

P.S: Reinstall will have to wait, for the only installation media I could find are PowerPC installer media, no Intel media.

 

If the installer is PowerPC you can try to install Rosetta from a 10.6 install disc which has been reportedly worked for installing other legacy software under Lion.

Posted on Apr 14, 2012 9:19 AM

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  • by mishmumken,Helpful

    mishmumken mishmumken Apr 14, 2012 7:02 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 14, 2012 7:02 AM in response to léonie

    This might be a long shot in the dark but .... trash the preferences, repair permissions, reboot. Then try iDVD again. If it's the same create another user. If the message comes up again just click the "not show again" check box and try burning anyways. If THAT fails you can try a reinstall but frankly I'd just ignore the thing and keep on making disk images.

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Apr 14, 2012 8:40 AM in response to mishmumken
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    Apr 14, 2012 8:40 AM in response to mishmumken

    Thanks for your reply, mishmumken!

    I appreciate it. Trashing preferences and repairing permissions did not help. Ignoring the error message and trying to burn also did not succeed, the "burn" button stays dimmed. It's the same on both MBPs with Mac OS Lion, and also when working from a new user account.

     

     

    but frankly I'd just ignore the thing and keep on making disk images.

     

    I think, I'll just continue doing that, but nevertheless I would have liked to find out if that is a general problem with iDVD on MacOS 10.7.3 in combination with the MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8  Super Drive, or if there is  something wrong with my Macs.

     

    Thanks again!

     

    Léonie

     

    P.S: Reinstall will have to wait, for the only installation media I could find are PowerPC installer media, no Intel media.

  • by mishmumken,Solvedanswer

    mishmumken mishmumken Apr 14, 2012 9:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 14, 2012 9:19 AM in response to léonie

    My take is that it is Lion that is doing this since you report that your drive is acknowleged in System Profiler and you can burn from Disk Utility.

     

     

    leonieDF wrote:

     

    P.S: Reinstall will have to wait, for the only installation media I could find are PowerPC installer media, no Intel media.

     

    If the installer is PowerPC you can try to install Rosetta from a 10.6 install disc which has been reportedly worked for installing other legacy software under Lion.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 14, 2012 9:49 AM in response to mishmumken
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    Apr 14, 2012 9:49 AM in response to mishmumken

    install Rosetta from a 10.6 install disc

    Thanks again, I never got around to trying that, but that might have the added bonus of giving me back some other apps I sorely miss since Lion.

     

    Cheers

    Léonie

     

     

    P.S.

     

    I tried to give you "Helpful" answer points for your very helpful contribution, but by some weird magical movement of the cursor the button below my own post has been pressed ; see my other question here:

    Buggy Buttons and Random Reputation Points: Trouble-shooting?