Burn CDs & DVDs in Finder

Article, Finder, Mac OS X, Novice | May 6th, 2008

An extremely useful and very easy to do feature of Finder is the ability to burn CDs & DVDs with the click of a few buttons. It’s so simple and easy you’ll want to burn everything to your discs!

1. Right click (or Control click) on your screen where you would like your burn folder to be placed (on the desktop or somewhere in Finder) and left click on “New Burn Folder” from the drop down menu.
2. Now that you have your burn folder and it is named appropriately, drag the files you would like to burn into the folder. A burn folder is essentially like a normal folder however it doesn’t actually keep any data in it. A burn folder keeps aliases (shortcuts) to files which it plans on burning to an optical disc. You can tell these files are aliases because they have a small arrow on the bottom left corner of the files icon.
3. Once your ready to burn your disc, left click the “Burn” button on the top right corner of the burn folders window.
4. If you do not already have a CD or DVD in your drive, you will be prompted to insert one that can be written to. Once you do so your CD or DVD will be burn
5. Once your disc has successfully burnt it will eject from the optical drive. You can either keep the burn folder you created to burn another disc or you can delete the folder. Deleting the burn folder will not delete your original files.

There it is, you can now easily burn data to CD or DVD. Almost too simple isn’t it?