Yeah, I know yesterday was Tuesday, but…

You may remember my post from last week, “The One Thing You Cannot Do on a Mac.”

So, I had this brilliant idea.

I have an older Mac that I rarely use anymore. It had a CD/DVD drive, and I’ve burned CDs with it before, so I checked to see if it would also burn DVDs.

Yay! It does.

So, I copy over the files from the one computer over to the older one. A slow process over the network, but I did other things while I waited.

Then I put in a DVD to burn it.

And it started burning the disk! Yay! The progress bar moved and progressed. Yay!

Then I left the room and, when I came back, discovered the DVD had been ejected and the screen had gone blank.

It had gone into power save mode, and the burn failed due to a communication error, which is error number 0×80020022.

Okay, so try again. Turn power save off. Turn sleep settings off. Nothing should interfere this time with the burning of the disk.

Put the DVD in. Start burning. Yay! Phone rings. I leave the room and, when I return, the burning of the disk has failed again. Same 0×80020022 error. Clearly, it wasn’t the power save mode or the sleep settings.

Ugh.

Tried a different brand. The original brand I started with that wouldn’t work on the other computer any more.

Lo and behold, it worked.

But, would it work for a second DVD?

Of course not. It stopped at 96.6% with the same 0×80020022 error.

And so the wasted DVDs continue to pile up…

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