I am trying to copy a data CD. This is a normally formatted, once written CDR that I now need another exact copy of. (I should have made two to start with, perhaps...)
I put the CD with my data on it into the drive. After a few seconds it automatically mounts and up comes a nautilus browser window. I already know what is on the disc and want to copy (duplicate) the whole thing, not use individual files. So I close the nautilus browser window. Now I can see the Gnome desktop. On the desktop is an icon for my data CD that I just put in the drive, the one that I want to make an exact copy (a clone) of. I right click on that icon to bring up the menu which has the option "Copy Disc". I left click that option, to start the disc copy process. This far everything has worked as I would expect. Now that I have clicked to start the copy, up comes the Copy Disc Dialogue. For a few moments it is grey, then it turns to colour and I can use it. I am happy with the defaults so I click the "Write" button. After this one of two things happens; 1: the correct process of reading the disc to make an image, ejecting the original disc and prompting me to insert a blank disc and writing the image to it, with all the prompts and dialogues that I'd expect. This is success, and what I would expect. 2: after a few moments the Copy Disc Dialogue disappears and nothing happens. This is a failure, and not what I would expect. If the process fails (case two) then the icon for the original disc is still on the desktop, and if I start the process again by right clicking it I normally achieve a successful copy operation. What I did notice, having nineteen discs to copy, is that there is a reliable clue early in the process. When the Copy Disc Dialogue appears, the desktop icon for the original master disc in the drive (the one with data that I want to copy) should disappear from the desktop. If that happens, the copy process will complete. Sometimes the desktop icon for the original disc does not disappear when the Copy Disc Dialogue appears; in this case the copy process fails as in case two above. -- Copy disc sometimes fails, sometimes works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus-cd-burner in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
