I have been using EMC9 for some time now. I have never had any issues turning my TiVo recordings into DVDs using mydvd9. I went to make a dvd and the first thing I noticed was mydvd was missing half of its menus. It looks like I will get all of them when it first opens but then when it finally finishes opening most of them go away. The menu tasks and the edit tasks on the left shrink up and leave only 1-2 features under each. That was a bad sign.

When I went to add a file in from TiVo (the same way I always do) I get an error message that says "The file you are trying to use cannot be edited, and has not been added." I thought maybe there was an issue with the particular video I wanted to transfer. So I tried some other simple ones - same issue.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling EMC Suite 9 several times but this has not helped. I wondered if something was interfering with it and had recently upgraded my Adobe Reader. So I uninstalled that and tried again. No help.

I've read through this community site and found nothing. I'm running WinXP if that helps.

I'm not sure of any other software that works with TiVo but Roxio so not sure what to do next. Strange how something that has always worked, suddenly doesn't.

Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.

Some TiVo recordings are protected so you may not be able to use them.

Did you do a clean uninstall/install as dicussed here (link).

Print off the instructions and don't skip any steps.

Thanks for the tip. I don't think it's TiVo since none of my recordings would transfer and the Roxio software's menus looked all crazy. I will try the uninstall/reinstall as you suggested. However, it mentions that this is for Creator 2009. I have EMC Suite 9 - but not 2009. Should that make a difference? Thanks.

Yes, the instructions are here.

This fix worked perfectly! Thanks so much for your help. I wasn't too excited about purchasing new software. I'm burning again.....Thanks again.