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Make that days? Or weeks? In any case, given that I'm only on files starting with number 5 and I assume I have the whole alphabet to go (progress bar is not even above 0%), I have a CCleaner question.
I am in Run Cleaner mode already, not Analyze. So, if I hit "cancel" now, can assume that the files to this point have been deleted? Basically, can I do this a little at a time?
I figure if I can delete enough via CCleaner I will eventually be able to open the folder in Explorer and delete faster from there, but since CCleaner seems to be running in the background without issue I obviously don't want to stop it if it's all for naught.
I can't answer that question, but I was able to clear 33,000 files (about 1GB) from my old Windows 7 machine. I don't have iTunes installed on there any more, though, which may help. The system just let me delete them. So thanks for the heads-up.
Supposedly Media Player caches things like when you look at a song on Amazon for 10 seconds.
From what I've seen, disabling MP Network Sharing in services.msc and making sure it is not part of Start-Up prevents future caching. Again, if I used MP I would be less miffed at this, but since I don't, I find it particularly annoying that it was essentially duplicating all the images in my iTunes library as well as adding useless online stuff.
So the final tally was something like 20GB of junk files, all based on the default settings for a Windows program I don't really use. Thanks Obama.
Report: I canceled CCleaner after about 24 hours of deleting (2-3 GB) and was finally able to get into the Media Player "localmls" folder to delete the entire folder overnight and recreate it this morning. I'm going to leave the custom folder string in CCleaner just in case disabling Network Sharing doesn't work and the files start to get rewritten.
Just ran Disk Cleanup and can already see a huge speed difference with these 600K+ files off my machine. Funny how that is.
I'm wanting to have a DSLR connected to my mac, so I can tether live view, and not need to stand looking down the tube. I got lucky on eBay with a Nikon D-70. Works well. (Although it doesn't live view. so I just keep triggering the shutter as I adjust the camera). The camera came with the EN-EL3 rechargeable battery. But it doesn't charge via USB. It needs it's own charger. I ordered one on Amazon, not looking that it's coming from China. Anyone have any tricks to charge that battery in some unique fashion?
Also, does anyone know of a older (i.e. less expensive) DSLR that will tether live view to a mac?
Whilst checking out a camera I found, I ran into this list of Lightroom tether compatible cameras which might be useful.
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I have gone through five pairs of earphones in the last year. FIVE. All of them have had the connection between the cord and the jack go bad. I've naively tried to deal with the problem by purchasing increasingly expensive earphones, but that obviously isn't working. I am LIVID. I'm not abusing the earphones, what possibly could I be doing wrong?
Apart from actual physical abuse of the connecting bits, I can't imagine anything that would cause that kind of failure five times, especially since it sounds like you're getting different makes. Are mice nibbling on them?