Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

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Dana - Apr 09, 2016 12:46:00 pm PDT #24802 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.


megan walker - Apr 09, 2016 1:02:18 pm PDT #24803 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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.


megan walker - Apr 10, 2016 6:32:28 am PDT #24804 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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.


Liese S. - Apr 10, 2016 9:45:57 am PDT #24805 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Dang, that's wild.


DCJensen - Apr 12, 2016 8:17:30 am PDT #24806 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Wow.


omnis_audis - Apr 30, 2016 10:47:13 pm PDT #24807 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

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?


DCJensen - May 01, 2016 8:59:12 am PDT #24808 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

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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Tom Scola - May 10, 2016 2:42:47 pm PDT #24809 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

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?


DXMachina - May 11, 2016 5:31:15 pm PDT #24810 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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?


omnis_audis - May 11, 2016 8:46:21 pm PDT #24811 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

are they all failing in the same way at the same point? Is your placement of your device in your pocket at a strange angle, that is causing too much stress/strain on the connector area? Are you positive it's the headphones that are failing? Could it be the device? Try the headphones in other devices.