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aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 3:48:39 pm PST #6802 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Oh, I think I get it now. I'll bet the CD is 8.0 and I only have the update unstalled on the hard drive. So I can't do this.


Theodosia - Jan 23, 2006 3:48:56 pm PST #6803 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

iTunes, I think about 20, 12 of them 'smart' ones. Some of the 'dumb' playlists are actually to keep track of the songs that people have gifted me with or to keep box sets together.


Tom Scola - Jan 23, 2006 3:51:48 pm PST #6804 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Is there a Mac utility for cleaning out disc space? Emptying FCP's Capture Scratch (and DVDSP's MPEG folder) isn't quite getting me far enough for the current project I'm working on, so I'm wondering if there's a slew of temporary files I can trash or something.

Is this the same Mac that died last week? If so, you can probably clean out a lot of the stuff that got archived during the archive & install.


Consuela - Jan 23, 2006 3:52:15 pm PST #6805 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

What's a smart playlist?


§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 4:08:48 pm PST #6806 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

to keep box sets together

You can do that by doing Disc Number 1 of x.

What's a smart playlist?

One that runs a query to select songs. I'm unsure how much of the query is run on the iPod and how much is iTunes (I have some playlists that are songs I haven't listened to, and they don't roll off the iPod playlist until I connect to iTunes again).


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 4:08:50 pm PST #6807 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Oh, I think I get it now. I'll bet the CD is 8.0 and I only have the update unstalled on the hard drive. So I can't do this.

If you can mount the hard drive, you might still be able to run it off the drive. I think it can still do a lot of things, but I don't know which things it can do.


aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 4:12:20 pm PST #6808 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

This is certainly not my expertise, but my understanding is that you can't de-frag the hard drive when you are running from the hard drive.


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 4:18:03 pm PST #6809 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

When I click "Optimize" in Speed Disk 6.0.5, I it says yes, can't do it all, but it does give me the option of defragmenting "Files not currently in use"


aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 4:24:40 pm PST #6810 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'll give it a shot.


Jessica - Jan 23, 2006 5:31:36 pm PST #6811 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If so, you can probably clean out a lot of the stuff that got archived during the archive & install.

How do I find that stuff?

I think I'm going to bring in my own external hard drive, regardless. I'm not really using it here.