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tiggy - Dec 26, 2005 6:54:33 am PST #6167 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

ephpod, I think, does not work with the new ipod firmware upgrade.

hmmm...i don't know. i used it with the newest update of iTunes.


tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:00:07 am PST #6168 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.

They're not the same things.


tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:07:04 am PST #6169 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.

OK, in the default iTunes instalation on XP, the playlist files are

iTunes Music Library.xml
iTunes Library.itl

(OK, I'm not sure what that second one is.) They reside in My Documents/My Music/iTunes, if you're logged in as the correct user. Actually, they really reside in C:Documents and Settings/userid/My Documents/My Musici/Tunes, where 'userid' is the name of the user acount that iTunes was installed under.

eta: backslashes replaced with forwardslashes to get them to display


Cass - Dec 26, 2005 10:06:17 am PST #6170 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

in the default iTunes instalation
tommy, you rock like a rocking thing that rocks to a favorite playlist. I'll head up to their place tomorrow and fix it. Thank you muchly!


Jon B. - Dec 26, 2005 12:01:15 pm PST #6171 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I can vouch for tommyrot's answer. I just did a fresh install of Windows on my PC. After installing iTunes, opening it and shutting it down, I copied my backed-up My Music directory into my new My Music directory. When I reopened iTunes, all my old music and playlists were there.


Cass - Dec 26, 2005 12:05:34 pm PST #6172 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Excellent! It's a Kprinkle Miracle. Or, you know, just good troubleshooting. They are often pretty interchangable.


tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 4:49:57 am PST #6173 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.

Quick IIS Server question - if you change global.asa, do you have to do anything to force IIS to use the new version (like, say, a reboot, but that's not really an option at the moment)?

eta: This concerns a setting in the Session_onstart section, which applies to a specific user the first time he hits a page on the site.


Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:29:57 am PST #6174 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH and I are both getting this error message when trying to update his film review site. I haven't changed anything recently, so I'm baffled:

Warning: Unknown(/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

Any ideas? The "unknown" and "line 0" are what's got me stumped -- how can I figure out where the actual problem is if it won't tell me what file and/or line is giving it trouble?

[eta that every other part of the site seems to be able to access the database just fine -- reading still works, just not writing.]


tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 6:31:32 am PST #6175 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.

This appears to be a problem with the server, not on your end.

eta:

reading still works, just not writing.

Maybe a permissions problem on the server database. Write permission is different (and often more restrictive) than read permission


Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:39:41 am PST #6176 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This appears to be a problem with the server, not on your end.

I suppose that's kind of good. (In that I didn't break it.)

The baffling part is that I haven't changed any permissions recently, and all the files involved in posting to the database have both "write" and "execute" permissions. Maybe I missed one.