Hey everyone, I'm running a 12-Inch PowerBook G4 10.3.9 and last night I ran into a problem.
I was in iTunes creating a playlist and put in a blank CD-RW to make a MP3 disc, I clicked "Burn MP3" and right from the get go when it says "Checking Playlist" it took a long while. Once it was in the "burning phase", it stalled and spit my disc out saying it could not be read or written to. I put the disc back in and Erased it and tried again, same thing happened. I put a different disc in, erased it and still didn't burn. I gave up and went to bed.
This morning I tried again, same thing. The last thing I added to my PB was two CDs I imported, I deleted those then re-imported them, but selected them in iTunes to convert them to MP3 (just try something) and deleted the original import. I had a little luck with iTunes at that point, the "Checking Playlist" phase was quick like it normally should be and it looked like it was going to burn the entire CD, but then it finished early and ejected the disc and the same "could not be read or written to" message came up. I gave up and decided to put my old iPod Shuffle in and I first "restored" it and then imported the playlist I wanted to burn to my CD to the Shuffle, and that wouldn't complete, it came up with the message "could not be read or written to".
I remembered I deleted those CDs I imported but I didn't empty the trash, so I clicked "Secure Empty Trash", but my PB freezes, the HD makes a noise over and over like it's searching for something. I have to press and hold the Power button just to turn it off. I don't know if anything is wrong with the HD itself, as I'm using the PowerBook and nothing is going wrong. I'm surfing the web like normal. The problems start when I use iTunes to burn or import music to my Shuffle or if I attempt to "Secure Empty Trash".
I'm not real savvy with fixing problems with my Mac, but I did click on Disk Utility and clicked Repair Disk Permissions just for the heck of it, not sure if that does anything for my situation. I did install my new HD a few months back and I never had any problems like this before.
Any thoughts?
Edit:
Alright, so I just went with "Empty Trash" instead of "Secure", but this is odd, I was checking at which point the playlist import would stop importing to my Shuffle and it stops at an AC/DC song, I deleted that song and the importing was almost through, until it hit another AC/DC song, and it stopped importing again, so I deleted that and now I've imported the playlist to my shuffle (w/o AC/DC) and now I just completed burning the MP3 disc. I'm glad it's done, but what's up with that? I never had any problem with AC/DC before...
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