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Dick Sidbury - 29 May 2008 04:55 GMT

have a few questions, probably more later.

1. I got a second battery with it, which I will need occasionally.
Should I reserve its use for when it's needed, or try to use then
equally?

2. I've seen many of you who are strong advocates of macSOUP, so I
thought I'd try it. It is very different from MT-NW and it's taking
some time to get used to it. To me, offline reading is rarely useful
and while the tree representation of threads is interesting, I'm not
sure that it is a lot better than the traditional thread representation.
Are there some really neat things that I should investigate before
making my decision. It took me a month or so to decide that the MT-NW,
multiple window method is superior to the T-bird I was using in Windows
previously (at least if you have a monitor (or monitors) with lots of
space.

3.I'm having iPod/iTunes problems. I transferred my iTunes library from
my office machine which yesterday had about 3.5 gb of stuff. After the
transfer my new iTunes has 12+ gb of stuff and lots of songs appear to
have been copied multiple times. Any clue as to what happened? and how
can I fix it. It appears that if I filter iTunes to show duplicates
that it shows all copies of all "duplicate" songs. What I'd like to do
is find a way of showing the "extra" copies of all actual duplicates and
then deleting the entire bunch. What I've been doing is deleting them b
hand, but my Library expanded from 400 or so items to 3000+ and it's
very time cdnsuming. What might I have done to get the dups in the
first place. I use Senuti to "sync" my Touch to my computers if that
makes any difference. Which brings up another problem. When I hook my
Touch to my mac pro it seems to work fine. When I connect it to my
macbook pro it essentially tells me that it's waiting for me to connect
an iPod. However another program, whose name escapes me at the moment,
seems to work (but I don't want to pay the 20 dollar shareware fee since
senuti works on my other computer).

dick

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Dave Balderstone - 29 May 2008 05:12 GMT

> 3.I'm having iPod/iTunes problems. I transferred my iTunes library from
> my office machine which yesterday had about 3.5 gb of stuff. After the
> transfer my new iTunes has 12+ gb of stuff and lots of songs appear to
> have been copied multiple times

How did you do the transfer? Where are the actual music files located?

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Dick Sidbury - 29 May 2008 14:19 GMT

> > 3.I'm having iPod/iTunes problems. I transferred my iTunes library from
> > my office machine which yesterday had about 3.5 gb of stuff. After the
> > transfer my new iTunes has 12+ gb of stuff and lots of songs appear to
> > have been copied multiple times
>
> How did you do the transfer? Where are the actual music files located?

I googled it and found instructions on a web site (which I don't seem to
be able to find now :(.

Anyhow: go to iTunes preferences: advanced and make sure that
Keep iTunes music folder organized is checked and
copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library is checked.

Then I plugged a firewire cable into both computers and rebooted the
mac pro into firewire boot mode (or whatever it's called) and opened
iTunes on the macbook pro and it started copying stuff. The actual
files are located wherever they are located by default on both machines.
10.5.2 on both machines if it makes any difference.

And while typing this I may have figured out part of the problem. Maybe
someone can confirm. My mac pro has one of its internal HD's as a time
machine disk and another internal disk as a super duper bootable backup.
So maybe I could reboot in firewire mode and eject all the disks except
the system disk and redo the transfer.

dick

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tacit - 29 May 2008 06:03 GMT

Please explain in detail exactly how you transferred the songs. Did you
transfer them over a network? On an external disk? If the latter, how
was the disk formatted? Did you copy the songs from inside the folders
in your Music folder, or did you copy the songs by running iTunes,
hilighting them, and dragging them from iTunes onto some disk or mounted
network volume? The more detail you can give us, the more likely we can
tell you exactly what went wrong and how to fix it.

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Steve Hix - 29 May 2008 06:31 GMT

> have a few questions, probably more later.
>
> 1. I got a second battery with it, which I will need occasionally.
> Should I reserve its use for when it's needed, or try to use then
> equally?

I swap mine monthly, roughly.

The battery will degrade slowly over time just sitting on the shelf, so
it doesn't save you anything over the long run by never using one of
them.

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Jolly Roger - 29 May 2008 16:44 GMT

> 1. I got a second battery with it, which I will need occasionally.
> Should I reserve its use for when it's needed, or try to use then
> equally?

You can preserve battery life by following some simple storage
procedures (in a nut shell, you charge the battery to a certain level
and then store it at reduced (refrigerated) temperature).

I recommend you read:

<http://www.batteryuniversity.com>

In particular:

<http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-19.htm>

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