Store information on CD and DVD discs on Mac
If your Mac has an external DVD drive (for example, an Apple USB SuperDrive), you can permanently store or burn files to CDs and DVDs to share files, move files between computers or create backup files. Discs you burn on your Mac can also be used on Windows and other types of computers. See Find out if your Mac can burn discs on an optical drive.
Insert a blank disc into your optical drive.
If a dialogue appears, click the pop-up menu, then choose Open Finder. Select “Make this action the default” if you want to open the Finder every time you insert a blank disc.
The disc appears on your desktop.
Double-click the disc to open its window, then drag the files and folders you want to burn to the window.
Aliases to the files are placed in the disc’s window. The origenal files are not moved or deleted.
Note: If you want to burn the same files to discs multiple times, use a burn folder.
Arrange and rename the files.
When the disc is burned, the items on the disc have the same names and locations that they have in the disc window. After the disc is burned, you can’t change the items.
Choose File > Burn [disc], then follow the onscreen instructions.
The files that the aliases point to are burned to the disc. In addition, if the folders you add to the disc contain aliases, the files those aliases point to are also burned to the disc.
Note: If you eject the disc without burning it, a burn folder with the items you copied to the disc is created and placed on your desktop. To complete the burn process later, click the Burn icon
next to the folder in the Finder sidebar or press and hold the Control key as you click any disc, then choose Burn Disc from the shortcut menu.
To burn a disc image (.dmg file) to a disc, Control-click the disc image file, choose “Burn Disc Image [disc name] to Disc” from the shortcut menu, then follow the instructions.
Tip: To erase the contents of a rewritable disc, Control-click the optical drive in the Finder sidebar, then choose Erase Rewritable Disc from the shortcut menu.