Quick question about DVD-Rs. You can use them like a huge-ass storage device for any ole types of files, instead of for burning DVD-format movies, right? I have all these avi-files that I've bit-torrented that's taking up room on my hard drive, but some of them are too big for a 700MB CD-R and I'm too lazy (and also not in possession of a DVD-writer) to learn to convert them and burn them as DVD. Can I just write a bunch them as regular data files onto a single DVD-R (which I understand can hold 4GB+ data)?
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Vonnie K - Dec 02, 2004 6:09:56 am PST #297 of 10003
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tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 6:14:56 am PST #298 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.
You can use them like a huge-ass storage device for any ole types of files, instead of for burning DVD-format movies, right?
Yes.
Can I just write a bunch them as regular data files onto a single DVD-R (which I understand can hold 4GB+ data)?
The dual-layer blank DVDs can hold almost 8GB. We just got a dual layer burner at work, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Huh, I could back up my entire mp3 collection onto 4 DVDs.
Tom Scola - Dec 02, 2004 6:18:19 am PST #299 of 10003
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If you don't have a DVD writer, you can't burn DVD-Rs, though.
You can't just stick a blank DVD in a CD burner.
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 6:21:04 am PST #300 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.
Oops, I missed the part about not having a DVD burner.
Vonnie K - Dec 02, 2004 6:25:34 am PST #301 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
If you don't have a DVD writer, you can't burn DVD-Rs, though.
D'oh! I am DUMB.
::grumbles:: I don't want to have to get a DVD-writer! The external ones (since I've only got a laptop) are pricey, yo.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2004 6:44:49 am PST #302 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Am I missing something here, or is MS dumb?
If I have Auto Arrange on, when I drop something onto my desktop in XP, they're arranged up to down, left to right. Yet, if I hit SHIFT and click to select a range of icons, they're selected left to right, up to down. Which means I almost tried to e-mail putty.exe to work, which wouldn't have gone over well -- I'd have lost the two scanned images I'd put there to the vagaries of our e-mail filters.
Why would they change that behaviour? W2K selects like it auto arranges. Can I change XP back?
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 7:42:27 am PST #303 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.
Anyone used this [link] (it's the iTalk Voice Recorder that plugs into an iPod)? Any idea what the sound quality and recording level would be? (Quality wouldn't have to be that great if it's just used for voice.) Any other solutions for recording audio with a mic into an iPod?
aurelia - Dec 02, 2004 8:07:23 am PST #304 of 10003
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I just got an external firewire drive to store my music on. I've copied my iTunes music folder to it. Do I now delete that folder from my hard drive? Or just the contents of the folder? Will iTunes automatically find it on the external drive, or do I need so tell it to look there?
Wolfram - Dec 02, 2004 8:14:33 am PST #305 of 10003
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Now this IDE To USB Drive Adapter would be useful for anyone, even techs when helping, transferring old hard drive data to a new hard drive. You won't even have to open the new machine and attach the drive.
Just got two. Thanks Daniel!
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2004 8:15:07 am PST #306 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.
do I need so tell it to look there?
Pretty sure you have to tell it.
Go to iTunes / Preferences / Advanced - you can change the iTunes folder location there.
This is a guess, but I think you should tell iTunes about the new location before you delete music from the old location.
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Also, once you do this there is a chance iTunes might lock up if you open it without the external drive attached. I mean, either that will always happen, or it won't be a problem. Mozilla has this problem when I click "save as" and the last place I saved something to is on a filesystem that is not currently mounted.