I am new to DVD Shrink, and have been loving it so far. So easy to use.

However I have run into an error that is driving me crazy. I have a work around but wanted to find out how to fix it.

Whether I am doing a full backup or a rebuild, this error happens every single time.  (See work around below) I am running the ISO output set to default size.

The error occurs usually near the end of the backup, depending on the DVD, from 85-98% complete.

Here is the actual error text:
---
DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue.
Failed to write file \"_______.___\"
There is not enough space on the disk.
---

Initially I was not sure if it was refering to my hard drive or the ISO I was creating. So I deleted a ton of stuff and took my freespace from 10gig to 18gig. Same error occured again. I knew then it had to be refereing to the ISO. So I experimented some more and found that I _have_ to manually adjust the compression on everything to get the size down at least 300meg below the size of the ISO. If I do this, it backs up the DVD no problem.

So, for most movies, I have been doing a custom rebuild using ONLY the movie, compressing it down to there is 300 or so meg free and then and only then does it complete the job.

On some discs I found that I even have to set a custom ISO size of 4300 and then set the movie compression to a size of 3999 to make it backup the movie.

On short/small movies where they are sized under 4 gig, I can copy the whole thing including menus and extras no problem. But if they are larger than the 1 sided DVD ISO, I get this error everytime unless I do the work around.

Any ideas on why its doing this? I know another guy who has used it for a long time and he has never heard of this error before.

Yeppers, I have 3.17. I\'ve removed it and reinstalled it in hoping of clearing this up but to no avail.

Searched around online and found nothing refering to this anywhere. So I am kinda stumped. My work around does the trick but I would prefer to have it work correctly. I dont like losing a little quality because I have to compress it down more.

But aside from that its a quite lovely thing. DVD SHrink I mean.

disc check how? in Windows?

Ah, I thought there was some disc check thing in DVDS.

I do weekly disk checks on my HD and defrag it etc. The problem however that this error came from is due to a problem with the ISO that DVDS is building. guess I need to report it to the author.

I think I am on F32, hwen I upgraded to XP I dont think I converted it to the other format. Maybe that is the problem, but the thing is my ISOs are usually 4.2 - 4.3 gig no problem.

When I have the time I will have to explore that option. Good suggestion tho!

I think you can convert without re-installing from the command line. If you have winXP, do it, it\'s very important for DVD stuff that you have NTFS.