Burning photos from iPhoto11

Sorry that should have said: 2.2 GB available

iPhoto/Events/grabbing the pics I want and dragging down to make an Album. Highlighting the ablum and exporting it to the desktop. Opening up Finder and burning from there. This is the latest message:

"The disc can’t be burned because because communication between the computer and the disc drive failed (error code 0x80020022)."

Ha! Even the error message has an error in it. This is nuts.

If I open iDVD I can make a slideshow and it burns fine, but I don't want a slideshow of all the pics because I want to be able to print them off. Ugh...

LarryHN, no. I'm burning from iPhoto Albums. I tried burning a DVD from Finder folder this AM to no avail.

@Terence, it doesn't matter if I use iPhoto or Finder. I get the same message. iPhoto is an app for Mac OS X so. . .not sure what your point is.

I beg to differ with you. iPhoto gives you the option to burn right from the app.

LOL

I found another feed that talked about iPhoto and burning from Finder. Basically, if you shut down Finder, give the burner a rest, it'll coorperate with burning once again. Crazy, but it worked. Now if I can figure out why Mac OS X won't recognize my external Seagate HD, I'll be batting a thousand 🙂 Thanks for your help!

I should have clarified. Not simply Mac OS X but iPhoto won't recognize the external HD therefore, I can't pull off pics that have been "saved" via Time Machine. Any hints?

Correct me if I'm wrong. I should be able to pull pics from TM and restore back into iPhoto. When I attempt to do this, it completely shuts down iPhoto with an error report a mile long. Happened twice while at the genius bar and they assumed it was my HD so replaced it twice to no avail. The last time they installed the new HD it was near closing time so the guys sends me home with instructions to continue the same process he attempted. Yeah. Same immediate shut down of iPhoto and error report. I sent it to Apple every time I received it. Have never heard any thing from them. I called Apple support only to be told, "I'm sorry, your warranty expired two or three days ago." So because the genius bar wasn't able to fix the issue ~ I'm screwed. My HD was NEVER bad. They also replaced the white cover because it was cracked. When he removed it, he messed up my CD burner in the process. When I said, "that never made a noise like that." His response was, "Oh, it must have gotten bent when I was changing the cover out. That happens sometimes. No problem, I'll just bend it back." WHAT! I was rather put out to say the least. They wouldn't do anything about it because they said "it still worked". Hmmm, did that cause the issue I'm dealing with in trying to burn? This should have all been documented in the genius bar notes under my laptop ~ right?

My bad. Are you saying to restore pics from TM I would do it in Finder? Totally not what I was told while at the genius bar.