Apple already has a support doc explaining how to do this. They got it basically correct: you copy the files to a folder, then burn the files from that folder. The problem: you’re copying a bunch of files from one place to another one the same drive, which takes a long time and uses up disk space – which you may not even have free. I just needed to burn 1,080 photos to a DVD, total size about 3GB.
Thankfully, there’s a good solution for power users:
- In iPhoto:
- Select the photos you want to burn. (I recommend using an album, but that’s your call.)
- Choose Share->Desktop
- Close the System Preferences app when it pops up
- In Finder:
- Right-click in a folder or the desktop, and choose “New Burn Folder”.
- Open a Finder window and navigate to:
/Users/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPhoto Selection
- Select all the items in the folder, and drag them onto the Burn Folder.
- Open your Burn Folder and start the burn normally.
There! You’ve burned your photos to a disk the way it should always work, using aliases – no needlessly duplicating files on your hard disk!




















cool tip.
but you can also burn the photos without the way to /Users/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPhoto Selection.
you can make it directly from the iphoto-selection by drag-and-drop to the burn folder by pressing the apple-key.
sorry for my bad english, i hope that helps anyway
there’s also an easy way to mount the empty dvd in finder and export the photo’s to it. then just choose burn.
I suspect this tip is obsoleted by Leopard – I think it uses aliases by default when copying files to a “blank” disk.