On the 20GB iPod, what's the actual capacity supposed to be, once you subtract the room for the iPod software and stuff? Because I've put 1.59 GB of music on mine, and it says that I've used 7.49 GB of space. The only reference that I've found through google estimate 18.5 GB of actual music space, which leaves me with about 3.5 GB unaccounted for.
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Hil R. - Jan 12, 2005 5:19:09 pm PST #1147 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2005 6:16:03 pm PST #1148 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is part of the discrepancy because when a HD manufacturer says "One GB" they mean 1,000,000,000, but within Finder a GB is 2^30?
eta: ie: 1K is 1024 bytes, not 1000; one MG is 1024^2, etc....
evil jimi - Jan 12, 2005 6:33:17 pm PST #1149 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
If the "stuff" includes the partitioning info fine but otherwise you have to take that into consideration. However, not even that accounts for a 3.59GB discrepancy.
Stephanie - Jan 13, 2005 5:29:49 am PST #1150 of 10003
Trust my rage
Hil, any chance your iPod is set to have contacts & calendar on it? Doesn't sound like it, but it's a possibility. I agree with jimi - that's way too much space to be taken up by software.
Hil R. - Jan 13, 2005 7:33:46 am PST #1151 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
If I go to the "Extras" menu, there are Contacts and Calendar listings, but no actual contacts or calendar entries in there.
tommyrot - Jan 13, 2005 8:18:14 am PST #1152 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't suppose there are any XSL gurus about who could help me with a problem?
Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2005 8:35:32 am PST #1153 of 10003
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Not a guru, but I'll give it a shot.
tommyrot - Jan 13, 2005 8:48:34 am PST #1154 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Actually, I got it to work by using '<xsl:choose>' instead of '<xsl:if'. I have no idea why the 'if' didn't work, but I'm under a time constraint so I'm just happy it's working.
Thanks anyway, Tom.
halfrek - Jan 13, 2005 9:27:08 am PST #1155 of 10003
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them,
while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.--Kahlil Gibran
wanting a 250GB to 300GB external HD for keeping all my vids, etc...have done research and now i just feel like banging my head against the wall. *sigh*
the one that comes up all the time in reviews is the Maxtor one touch, but there are bad reviews that mention losing all data or simply stopping working after the 1yr warrenty. the others have crappy backup/software programs.
the "newer" Maxtor II one touch is supposed to be better, but i am not sure how long it has been out, therefore, no user reviews on performance. *sigh*
any suggestions?
thegrommit - Jan 13, 2005 4:25:42 pm PST #1156 of 10003
Um.
wanting a 250GB to 300GB external HD for keeping all my vids, etc...have done research and now i just feel like banging my head against the wall.
Buy a regular hard drive and a drive enclosure to put it in.
eta - Something like this ought to work if you're using USB: [link]
Or this if you're using FireWire: [link]
Add in a hard drive and you're good to go.