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my imac dual core suddenly won't burn dvd's , it will play them though

could this be a software problem ?

10.4.6

[eddiecatflap]

it looks like a software / firmware problem to me , a thought echoed on apple's discussion boards

cd-r's and dvd+r's won't show up on desktop and in apple profiler and hard disk utility they show up as readable only..

BUT

itunes will burn on the cd-rs and idvd will burn on the dvd+r's , as long as you access the discs through the programs

and most oddly of all , they show up on the desktop once they're burned..

strange , eh ?

i recently ran that smc firmware update from appple and before it everything was wrking properly !

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i solved it

the parameter ram reset and ran system optimizer

seems ok now

system optimizer is an amazing piece of software , isn't it ?