ita, when I had the same problem, I was able to get past it by booting into single-user mode and running fsck, as detailed here: [link] . It wasn't my mac's most fun day, but better than letting the geniuses tell me that the whole drive was hosed.
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amych - Nov 07, 2007 4:11:38 pm PST #3417 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
meara - Nov 07, 2007 5:11:58 pm PST #3418 of 25497
You can try booting off CD, but when that happened to me, my computer was hosed. However, the geniuses were able to hook up another drive, boot off that, and save my stuff, so there was that, at least.
§ ita § - Nov 07, 2007 5:18:34 pm PST #3419 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, thanks. And I even know where my disk is, because I had to use it recently to install X Windows.
DXMachina - Nov 07, 2007 6:13:13 pm PST #3420 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
MLB shut down the DRM server because they've changed suppliers, and now they expect suckers to buy downloads of games in the new DRM format.
I have three games I purchased from MLB, so I suppose I'm screwed, too.
eta: Yup. My files are hosed.
le nubian - Nov 08, 2007 1:27:58 am PST #3421 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tunebite?
Juliebird - Nov 08, 2007 3:37:37 am PST #3422 of 25497
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
tunebite: bypasses the DRM on music files from places like iTunes so you can do things like burn it more than the allowed number or play it in other players (or if you're me, edit them). Also does video, but I'm guessing a faster computer is necessary. But it would be supernice because other than my nefarious purposes, I hate that iTunes limits me on how and where I can play the episodes I bought from them. I can buy and burn a cd, but it won't allow me to buy and then burn a DVD. And I'm not buying the apple TV thing.
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2007 5:14:44 am PST #3423 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can buy and burn a cd, but it won't allow me to buy and then burn a DVD. And I'm not buying the apple TV thing.
What I do, and what preserves tag information is to burn them to CD, and then reimport them. You lose ratings and some of the fancier tag stuff, but your CDDB info stays intact.
Gudanov - Nov 08, 2007 5:58:09 am PST #3424 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping
I always burn music to CD and then rip them to remove the DRM. It's decently practical with RW CD-ROMs. It makes listening and moving music to my player or CD for my car much easier.
Actually since I don't buy a lot of music, I'm kinda moving back to the buying used CDs instead of downloading. It's just easier and I have a hard copy stowed away in case I lose the files for some reason.
tommyrot - Nov 08, 2007 6:23:21 am PST #3425 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In IE6 when you go to look at history (say, for last week) is there a way of determining the date and time you visited a site? Because all I can see is a list of sites I visited last week.
Jon B. - Nov 08, 2007 8:13:18 am PST #3426 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What I do, and what preserves tag information is to burn them to CD, and then reimport them. You lose ratings and some of the fancier tag stuff, but your CDDB info stays intact.
You also lose more audio quality, since the file has now been encoded twice. You can sometimes get weird audio artifacts, too (clicks and such).