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Zenkitty, is this Mac or Windows?
Anyway, you'll need to either network the two computers together to do this (just temporarily, to copy the files over) or else take the drive from the old computer and put it in an external USB enclosure or mount it in the new computer. Probably you have too much music to make backing it all up to CD or DVD an easy option.
Oh, if either computer is a Mac you can boot that computer into target mode (hold down Apple-T during boot) - the computer in target mode will now only function as an external USB or Firewire drive, allowing you to use the other computer to copy the files.
It's Windows, tommy. I don't know how to do either of those things. I feel really stupid and annoying now. I shall Google - oh, hey, Apple actually has a step-by-step instruction page for how to do this! My god. A helpful website from a computer manufacturer. I'm stunned.
Whenever I come into this thread, I feel like I walked into the Mario Andretti Car Advice thread and asked how to make my car go. I swear, I used to understand computers. Back in 1997.
Zenkitty, how are you transferring your files from your old computer to your new computer?
If you're not doing that, how much extra room do you have on your iPod?
How much music, in GBs, do you have?
I feel like I walked into the Mario Andretti Car Advice thread and asked how to make my car go.
Right foot down til you see God, then brake.
ND, you ended up returning your Harmony 880 because of timing issues, didn't you? I had to increase the startup delay to 7s because the new TV is very slow warming up. I was wondering--did that option not exist when you had it, or did it not go as high as you needed?
The issue with my TV is that the warm up delay appears to be inconsistent. Also my TV always starts up in TV mode not the last used mode which means that the Harmony has to wait for the inconsistent warm up and then mode switch (which also seems to take an inconsistent interval). The end result was a less than 25% success rate on ending up in the right mode. That's what I get for buying an off brand TV.
That's a bit annoying. Still, if the TV's good...
I like about this one that you don't have to cycle through inputs in order to get to what you want. So, if for some reason I shut it down on an input that the remote doesn't know about, it still gets right to the correct one on startup.
Sorry, Dana - I plan to follow the instructions on this Apple website called "How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer" and if it doesn't work, then I'll be back here wailing and gnashing my teeth. I need a live-in geek.
yeah I miss my live in geek. Luckily I have a close-friend-geek who works for home cooking so I really shouldn't complain.
wow. I didn't realize how fast the wi-fi connection on the iphone was until I logged on last night @ ND's place. It proves how craptastic our new wi-fi routers are at work.
So, not being a network/IT guy, what are some settings I should look for that would slow down a wx connection? I guess a model # would help. Sorry, don't have that at home.
