And -v means verbose or list the files copied as they are copied.

Before you press the enter key, let me explain what you are doing: sudo -act as the superuser, because normal users cannot copy CD's or Volumes of any type cp -r -v -cp means copy, and the two letters after it are flags, telling the command how to act, -r means recursively meaning to apply the action to a folder, not just a single file.

so in the next line you type: sudo cp -r -v /Volumes/YOURGAME ~/Desktop For best results just copy and paste, then change YOURGAME to the actual name of the disk. Ok, now comes the commands I was talking about so first of all, type in 'df' in the window (without the apostrophes) and this will tell you which 'Volumes' or mass info storages are 'Mounted' or active on your computer, somwhere in that list it should say '/Volumes/YOURGAME' where YOURGAME is the game you are copying. Don't worry about the color of your terminal window (the default is black and white) my green and black window is on custom settings. (Or do what I usually do: hit the apple key+the space button which opens a search window in the upper right hand corner on your screen then just type 'Terminal' and it will pop up in the results list, just double click it and it opens.) Oh and P.S. To open terminal go to your Applications folder in finder, find the Utilities folder, and then find Terminal which is inside the Utilities folder. All you see on the screen on the mac is what is called a GUI or Graphical User Interface, which makes everything look shiny and high tech when really, in the background there are thousands of commands running in the background making what happens in the GUI happen, Terminal is just an interface that lets you enter your own commands to interface the System, a few basic commands will let you effectively copy a CD game flawlessly. Ok, so first of all, all you know on a Mac is a lie, no not really, but kind of. Ok, for those not handy with the Unix operating language I will give you a quick run through of the basics.

How do you copy a cd to another cd