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XP SP3 - how bad is it?
Have they fixed the bugs?
Does it hurt performance?(Some of the reviews say it increases performance.)
Does it add crippling DRM?
Or were the problems just the usual thing with a major update? Mostly already fixed? What was not fixed will be fixed soon?
Currently have automatic updates set to "notify". I'll wait a few weeks before downloading and installing, to give time for more bugs to be caught and fixed. Is that sufficiently paranoid, or do I need to wait longer?
Sounds like they are importing the crippling "are you sure stuff" from Vista:
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How do you back-up an external hard drive? I have an external hard drive with all my music and videos on it, and I would just about shoot myself if anything happened-- but do you get a second external hard drive??
Kinda depends on how much data you have. You could always burn DVDs if you don't change the data much and there isn't an overwhelming amount of it. Otherwise a second external hard drive is pretty much it.
I have this little guy, NAS 200, with two mirrored hard drives to store important stuff on. I don't know if a network device makes sense for you though.
Right now I have 104G. Is that too much to burn to DVD (I am thinking yes?) I have a lot of TV downloaded from itunes, and I would actually like to rip a lot more of the stuff I have on DVD. I feel like I am a bit done with purchasing physical DVD's, as I pretty much destroy the beautiful boxes anyway.
I just figured out how to rip from DVDs to Itunes and transfer to Ipod. It's awesome.
But most of you already knew that.
Yeah, you'd be looking at about 25 or more DVDs, not very practical.
You'd need a second external hard drive for the storage space to back things up, but I don't know anything about backing up iTunes stuff.
Sophia,
I think you need to get an external hard drive (something on the order of 200+ GB) and back your other drive up to that.
I like this drive, but I wanted to go for style:
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Thanks guys! That is a beautiful hard drive LeNub, but it will live at work (I have no home computer-- just the hard drive for my music and personal stuff, a work computer at regular work, a work computer at the theater, and my phone, which is internet capable)
My MacBook has me with a different user name than my other Macs, so when I copied my iTunes directory, some of the subdirectories have my old user name as the owner. How do I give myself ownership of every directory and subdirectory in a folder? (There's a simple command to do it, but it didn't work because of all the weird folder names.)
