Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
Now that's a very strange problem. I am going to muck about with my system and see what happens. Great troubleshooting, Bill. Your persistence and tenacity is great. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: I have narrowed my problems to a very unique set of keystrokes. When I delete the preference file everything works fine. I can attach a USB drive, erase it, then use command-O to access the drive, leave it, access it again and again. But if from the desktop I press command-3 to set finder to read in columns mode and then try to access the drive I get busy, busy, busy, and it will stay that way until I re-delete the library file. I have done this three times so far, always the same results. Very strange, but at least now I can maybe get them to duplicate it. BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:47 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I deleted both myself. I just wanted to be sure. I don't like to mess with preference files unless I have a pretty good idea of what I am doing. Of course, backup, backup, backup. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Looks like I spoke too soon on the busy problem. I was able to access the drive about four times, and then I started getting busy busy again. But it must be something that's going into that preference file. There is a second com.finder file that is a unix executable. Any idea what that one does and if I should try deleting it, too? BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I'm glad you got it working. Like I said, I had a similar issue, but I never try to assume that a fix I tried is universal unless I have read about it from another source or have it confirmed by other sources. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct:386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user
Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user library and rebooted the system. I haven't had any issues since. Note that if you delete finder preferences, you will have to reconfigure Finder in any customizable way you might have initially set. For example, you'll have to check all of the boxes for what will appear on the desktop, such as hard disks, connected servers, etc. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Ah, that would workwere it not for my problem that apple has not been able to solve that when I try to access an empty drive Finder stays busy forever. Apparently a blank DVD disk causes this, too, because for the past hour the menu has said this drive is busy. Not sure what to do here, Apple has not responded to any of my recent inquiries about the solution of this problem. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:19 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Can't you select the disk image in Disk Utility from the list, put a blank disk in the optical drive and then with the image selected, choose, Burn, from the toolbar? I haven't done this in a while, but I think that's how I did it in the past. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Looks like to burn a DMG file to a disk you have to drag and drop the source and destination in the disk utilities menu and then restore. Is there a better way to do this with keystroke commands? Thanks. Bill BILL HOLTON Email: mailto:b...@bholton.com b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: http://www.bholton.com www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
I'm glad you got it working. Like I said, I had a similar issue, but I never try to assume that a fix I tried is universal unless I have read about it from another source or have it confirmed by other sources. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user library and rebooted the system. I haven't had any issues since. Note that if you delete finder preferences, you will have to reconfigure Finder in any customizable way you might have initially set. For example, you'll have to check all of the boxes for what will appear on the desktop, such as hard disks, connected servers, etc. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Ah, that would workwere it not for my problem that apple has not been able to solve that when I try to access an empty drive Finder stays busy forever. Apparently a blank DVD disk causes this, too, because for the past hour the menu has said this drive is busy. Not sure what to do here, Apple has not responded to any of my recent inquiries about the solution of this problem. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:19 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Can't you select the disk image in Disk Utility from the list, put a blank disk in the optical drive and then with the image selected, choose, Burn, from the toolbar? I haven't done this in a while, but I think that's how I did it in the past. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Looks like to burn a DMG file to a disk you have to drag and drop the source and destination in the disk utilities menu and then restore. Is there a better way to do this with keystroke commands? Thanks. Bill BILL HOLTON Email: mailto:b...@bholton.com b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: http://www.bholton.com www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more
RE: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
Looks like I spoke too soon on the busy problem. I was able to access the drive about four times, and then I started getting busy busy again. But it must be something that's going into that preference file. There is a second com.finder file that is a unix executable. Any idea what that one does and if I should try deleting it, too? BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I'm glad you got it working. Like I said, I had a similar issue, but I never try to assume that a fix I tried is universal unless I have read about it from another source or have it confirmed by other sources. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user library and rebooted the system. I haven't had any issues since. Note that if you delete finder preferences, you will have to reconfigure Finder in any customizable way you might have initially set. For example, you'll have to check all of the boxes for what will appear on the desktop, such as hard disks, connected servers, etc. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Ah, that would workwere it not for my problem that apple has not been able to solve that when I try to access an empty drive Finder stays busy forever. Apparently a blank DVD disk causes this, too, because for the past hour the menu has said this drive is busy. Not sure what to do here, Apple has not responded to any of my recent inquiries about the solution of this problem. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:19 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Can't you select the disk image in Disk Utility from the list, put a blank disk in the optical drive and then with the image selected, choose, Burn, from the toolbar? I haven't done this in a while, but I think that's how I did it in the past. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Bill Holton b
Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
I deleted both myself. I just wanted to be sure. I don't like to mess with preference files unless I have a pretty good idea of what I am doing. Of course, backup, backup, backup. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Looks like I spoke too soon on the busy problem. I was able to access the drive about four times, and then I started getting busy busy again. But it must be something that's going into that preference file. There is a second com.finder file that is a unix executable. Any idea what that one does and if I should try deleting it, too? BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I'm glad you got it working. Like I said, I had a similar issue, but I never try to assume that a fix I tried is universal unless I have read about it from another source or have it confirmed by other sources. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user library and rebooted the system. I haven't had any issues since. Note that if you delete finder preferences, you will have to reconfigure Finder in any customizable way you might have initially set. For example, you'll have to check all of the boxes for what will appear on the desktop, such as hard disks, connected servers, etc. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Ah, that would workwere it not for my problem that apple has not been able to solve that when I try to access an empty drive Finder stays busy forever. Apparently a blank DVD disk causes this, too, because for the past hour the menu has said this drive is busy. Not sure what to do here, Apple has not responded to any of my recent inquiries about the solution of this problem. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct:386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:19 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Can't you select the disk image in Disk Utility
RE: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files?
I have narrowed my problems to a very unique set of keystrokes. When I delete the preference file everything works fine. I can attach a USB drive, erase it, then use command-O to access the drive, leave it, access it again and again. But if from the desktop I press command-3 to set finder to read in columns mode and then try to access the drive I get busy, busy, busy, and it will stay that way until I re-delete the library file. I have done this three times so far, always the same results. Very strange, but at least now I can maybe get them to duplicate it. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:47 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I deleted both myself. I just wanted to be sure. I don't like to mess with preference files unless I have a pretty good idea of what I am doing. Of course, backup, backup, backup. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Looks like I spoke too soon on the busy problem. I was able to access the drive about four times, and then I started getting busy busy again. But it must be something that's going into that preference file. There is a second com.finder file that is a unix executable. Any idea what that one does and if I should try deleting it, too? BILL HOLTON Email:b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Wow! Major successRE: Burning DMG files? I'm glad you got it working. Like I said, I had a similar issue, but I never try to assume that a fix I tried is universal unless I have read about it from another source or have it confirmed by other sources. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Apparently the order was critical. This time I removed the Superdrive, deleted the library file, shut down the mini, restarted, then attached the Superdrive. Not only did it work flawlessly, it seems to have solved a problem I have been going back and forth with Apple about since November--whenever I had an empty drie and would try to access it via Finder I would get busy, busy, forever. Attached a USB HD, erased it, then accessed it fine via Finder. So done for tonight, tomorrow I try to install the tools in my VM Window. Thanks for all the great help here from everyone! BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage:www.bholton.com Home Office: 1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? Are you having problems with disk in general? Also, have you tried other blank disks? This seems more than a little odd. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Bill Holton b...@bholton.com wrote: Tried this, now I don't get busy messages, get waiting for disk to be inserted messages, even though the drive is spinning with a known good disk. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 7:07 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Burning DMG files? This is my personal experience only, so I preface this by saying that I have no proof that it makes a difference, but I was having a lot of issues with blank CDs and DVDs, as well as when opening an optical disk causing repeated busy signals. I ended up deleting my Finder preference files from my user library and rebooted the system. I haven't had any issues since. Note that if you delete finder preferences, you will have to reconfigure Finder in any customizable way you might have initially set. For example, you'll have to check all of the boxes for what will appear on the desktop, such as hard disks
