Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Create a burn folder on Mac to hold files to burn to a CD or DVD
You can create a burn folder to collect files you want to burn to a CD or DVD. Burn folders are useful for burning several copies of a folder or for regularly backing up a set of files by burning them to discs.
Create a burn folder
On your Mac, click the desktop (the background area of your screen) if you want to keep the burn folder on the desktop; otherwise, open the window where you want to keep the burn folder.
Choose File > New Burn Folder, then type a name for the folder.
Note: If your computer doesn’t have a connected external optical drive that can burn discs, the New Burn Folder command doesn’t appear in the File menu. To see the New Burn Folder command, connect an external optical drive.
Drag the items you want to burn to a disc to the burn folder.
The items you want to burn appear as aliases in the burn folder; the original items remain in their respective folders in the Finder.
If you like, for quick access to the burn folder in the future, drag it to the Favorites section of the Finder sidebar.
Burn the contents of a burn folder to a disc
On your Mac, open the burn folder, then click Burn. (Or, if the burn folder is in the Finder sidebar, click the Burn icon
next to it.)Insert a blank disc into your computer’s optical drive, or into an optical drive connected to your computer, then follow the instructions. The original files that the aliases point to are burned to the disc.
If the Finder can’t find the original file for an alias, it asks whether to cancel burning or to continue without that item. If you cancel, the disc remains empty.