Blu Ray DVD burning on Sequoia - icon for drive appears as iCloud

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Blu Ray DVD burning on Sequoia - icon for drive appears as iCloud

I've just got a Verbatim USB Blu Ray DVD drive, and whenever I put a blank BD-R DL in, the Finder icon appears as an iCloud device in the sidebar, and dragging anything over seems to make it into an Alias. As BD-R DLs etc are pretty expensive, I don't want to click BURN on something that just doesn't look right and end up with an entire 50GB disk containing a 1KB symbolic link!

I've not been able to find any guides online for doing this - the Apple ones are pretty simplified and slightly at odds with what actually happens.

Mac mini, macOS 15.3

Posted on Apr 8, 2025 10:15 AM

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lkrupp

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Apr 8, 2025 10:35 AM in response to Grant Wray

To reiterate and amplify what Phil0124 said, macOS has NEVER supported burning BluRay disks. Steve Jobs banned it and famously said BluRay was a “bag of hurt” that would not be allowed on Macs. You cannot even play a commercial BluRay movie title without third party software.

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tbirdvet

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Apr 8, 2025 11:15 AM in response to Grant Wray

Toast 19 supports burning to BD disk with the Blu-Ray plug-in so I believe Toast 20 should also support.

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Phil0124

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Apr 8, 2025 10:38 AM in response to Grant Wray

Macs don't directly support Blu-ray burning for video discs . You need special software for that.

You can burn standard data discs using the built in Burning option, but you'll lose some space on the blu-ray disc.

For a 25GB BD, you'll end up with around 20GB of usable space after all is said and done.

click here ➜ Burn a Blu-Ray Disk - Apple Community

For better results something like Roxio would be suggested.

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lkrupp

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Apr 8, 2025 3:58 PM in response to Grant Wray

Grant Wray wrote:

Roxio Toast Pro 20 won't burn them as Blu Ray, stating incompatible media, and I was looking for them just to be standard data disks, not Blu Ray video discs.

Did you install the optional BluRay plugin?

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Grant Wray Author

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Apr 8, 2025 10:44 AM in response to Phil0124

Roxio Toast Pro 20 won't burn them as Blu Ray, stating incompatible media, and I was looking for them just to be standard data disks, not Blu Ray video discs.

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