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cd burner

Nov 4, 2010 2:32PM PDT

can someone help me to find a free cd burner , I tried a few but nothing works on my MBP 17 i7 .
Thank you

Jurgen

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A free DVD burner?
Nov 8, 2010 1:57AM PST

Correct me if I'm misunderstanding here, but didn't your MBP come with a CD burner installed?

Unless, of course, you are referring to CD burning software.

Did you know that you can burn CD's directly from the Finder?

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Nov 10, 2010 6:48PM PST

thanks for your info and I did not know that I had a burner installed. My problem is that i still learning snow leopard , even I have this MBP for 4 month now and before the older version but I just mainly window , now i'm sick of microsoft and window 7 don't work properly so I deleted window 7 and work only with snow leopard, works like a dream and what many people are saying , 'it just work', great.
Please understand I'm a young man of 69years but still like to be up to date.
Could you please tell me how the burner works , thank you for reply.

Jurgen

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Put a blank CD or DVD into the slot
Nov 11, 2010 12:57AM PST

Finder will ask what you want to do.
Choose "mount on desktop"
Drag whatever files you want to put on the disk, onto the disk icon.
When ready, drag the disk to the trash. (Yes, really!)
Finder will ask if you want to burn the disk.
Choose Yes and wait for the procedure to finish.

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Nov 11, 2010 7:21PM PST

thank you so much for your help you are fantastic.
and sorry for my english as I'm a born german but live since 1988 in Australia on the Gold Coast and believe you are from the US, been there many time and I love it but to late for me to change.
Thanks again

Kind Regards
Jurgen

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If you need any more information,
Nov 11, 2010 9:00PM PST

just post your questions in this forum.

While I live in the US, I am not from here.

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