Burned DVD will no longer play

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Burned DVD will no longer play

DVD's that I burned on iphoto and recently worked have stopped playing on either mac or separate DVD player. The built-in DVD player shows message that "no support disc is available." The separate DVD player shows nothing. The content is still there as "disc utility" indicates . I am sometimes automatically directed to iphoto with the note, "Checking for up-dates". Sometimes an icon will appear on the desk top which I am able to open showing the content of the disc.

Larry suggested that the DVD is no longer good but it is strange that the discs were recently made and recently played and the content will appear on my computer in iphoto or finder.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 4, 2016 12:52 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Feb 4, 2016 3:17 PM in response to Richardfromon

What version of iPhoto made the disk? What version do you have now?

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Answer 2

Feb 5, 2016 1:55 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thank you for your reply: iphoto 11 version 9.2.3 was uswed for both but even it it were different, I would think that that would not affect the playing on an external DVD player.

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Yer_Man

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Feb 5, 2016 2:54 PM in response to Richardfromon

What do you mean by "Play"? DVDs burned from iPhoto were backups. They don't "play" so I'm not quite sure what you mean.

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Old Toad

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Feb 6, 2016 5:43 PM in response to Richardfromon

Those were backups of the library at that time and should look like this when the disk is opened in the Finder.

The library should show up in the sidebar of iPhoto like this in iPhoto 9.4.3 and earlier:

If you have a newer version of iPhoto you'll need to drag the iPhoto Library folder from the disk to the Desktop and open it with iPhoto. If the library was created with iPhoto 7 or earlier you'll need to download and run this updater on the library: iPhoto Library Upgrader 1.1 before you'll be able to open it with iPhoto 9.5 or later. It will be located in the Applications/Utilities folder after downloading.

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Answer 5

Feb 6, 2016 5:47 PM in response to Old Toad

My screen does not look like the top picture and the disc does not show up as in the secon picture. However with at least one disc that I have tried thus far, an icon "easy share" appeared on the desk top. I went to it and immediately over a thousand pictures started to load to iphoto. there were duplicates of all.

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Yer_Man

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Feb 7, 2016 12:28 AM in response to Richardfromon

What does " I went to it" mean? What exactly did you do?

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Old Toad

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Feb 7, 2016 9:59 AM in response to Richardfromon

Then you didn't create the disk with iPhoto. How did you create the disk? Also post a screenshot of the disk's contents.

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