I don't have the requisite ADCness to report it, Rob, so you should. Is there a way to look at fix progress from the outside? Now I'm all curious.

I reported the bug. Only I can look at the progress, but I'll report back when the status changes.

I ran into a client whose computer had mysteriously slowed down. I asked questions, and it turned out that it happened after a failed attempt to print to pdf useing the PDF write print driver bundled with Acrobat. It turned out the file was still in the printer driver queue eating up 80%+ of CPU time. Deleted it from the queue. Tested it. That driver is frelled. It happens every time. So I'm going to do the obvious - delete and reinstall pdf write from the Acrobat CD. If that does not work I'll delete Acrobat and reinstall from CD. (And if that does not work, rather screw around with it more I'll put in some inexpensive third party software that provides the same "print file to pdf" service as acrobat.) But I still wonder: has anyone run into this with Acrobat? Any thoughts on why this happens?

I haven't seen that, but Acrobat is buggy. On my computer, Acrobat and Reader spend their time having hissy fits over shared files.

So, in further developments:

I got both drives up and running, copied over most of the files I need, and during the process I discovered that there were a couple of infected files on the old drive. My CA anti-virus caught and cleaned them. They were apparently temporary Internet files or something.

Also, just copying over the program files for the music converter didn't work. It was a special one day promotional giveaway, so I figured I'd need to find registry keys to convince it that I was allowed to run the thing, and sure enough.... It was worth a try though.

Actually, the paid version isn't that expensive. I may just buy it outright, like a good citizen.

Some software anti-piracy schemes rely on files being written to specific physical locations on hard drives. Or is that technique not used anymore? (It's obviously something that's not gonna work with disk defrag software, unless the defrag software leaves those files alone.)

Only I can look at the progress, but I'll report back when the status changes.

It's been marked as a duplicate of a bug already under investigation. Whether it will ever be fixed is a question.

Anyone familiar with putting a RedirectMatch statement with a regex expression into an .htaccess file? Here's what I'm trying to do. I've got a few hundred files of the form "playlist_YYYYMMDD.html" (where YYYYMMDD is a specific date). These files have been replaced by a php file on a different server where the date is a parameter: "playlist.php?date=YYYYMMDD". I thought I could use the following line in the .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch 301 {current path}/playlist_(\\d{8})\\.html
http;//{new domain and path}/playlist.php?date=$1

It doesn't work. Am I forgetting to escape something? Any other thoughts?

t on edit: colon after the http changed to a semi-colon so the the automagic [link] wouldn't kick in.

I have a somewhat rhetorical question. Every third or fourth or sometimes second CD I pop into my laptop, iTunes doesn't register it is there. It's on the desktop, in any case. I resolve this by quitting iTunes, ejecting the disc, then reloading, which then fires up iTunes and all is fine. It's 10.3.9 and iTunes7.

Is this my laptop being freak-o-deak, me being impatient and not waiting for my probable 7+ year old machine's cpu to catch up or ?

Update on my RedirectMatch problem: If I change the \\d to [0-9] it does redirect the files, but the "?" in the destination URL is replaced by a "%3f" so that the php doesn't work right. How can I get the destination URL to contain a "?" as intended? Using"\\?" doesn't work -- the URL then just includes the %code for a backslash on top of the %3f.