Hi friends,
When I was at my parents' place this weekend I loaded 13 dvd's worth
of music albumns in mp3 onto my laptop hard drive. Now this turned
out to be rather a tedious chore, and now that it's over I'm wondering
if maybe I didn't make it a little hard on myself.
The dvd's are laid out artist\album\track - title.mp3. Most of the
music comes from my cd collection and the collections of like-minded
friends, but I didn't buy all the cd's or acquire all the albumns by
any given artist at the same time. So, for example, there are two
folders worth of bad company, one on albums001, and one on albums002.
In windows, the system would complain and threaten to replace any
existing files , but then it would go off and copy. So when the
second bad company folder tried to copy it would warn me, and then it
would through all the new albumns into the folder with the old
albumns. Of course, if one of the albumns was a duplicate, there'd be
a problem, but since none of them are, things are very streamlined and
they work out nicely.
OK, now I know mac isn't windows, but you got'a admit, the above makes
a whole lot of sense from an organizational standpoint. My mac did
something very odd though. It warned me about duplicate folders, and
then... It replaced all of the smaller folders with bigger folders.
Right, so there were 5 albumns in the bad company folder on
albumns001, and 8 in the folder on albumns002. So Mac replaced the
existing bad company folder from albumns001 with the folder from
albumns002, destroying the content from albumns001 that it had just
coppied. Similarly, there was a Bon Jovi folder on albumns002 that
had about 8 albumns in it, and when I tried to copy a bon jovi folder
from albumns 010 that only had one albumn in it which I'd acquired
much later, it skipped that copy because the bon jovi folder already
on the drive was larger.
I had to copy albumn folders 1 and 2 at a time into artist folders
every time the same artist appeared on two dvd's, and by the time we
were about 2/3 of the way through the collection, that started to be
quite a lot because the stuff sourced from my original cd collection,
which was ripped more or less in order, had been replaced by acquired
material which was supplemental for albumns that were mising from my
cd collection or from cd's I bought after the original ripping merathon.
My poor sister. I'm afraid I snapped at her. She was standing right
at my shoulder hammering me with, "are you coming out with us? What
are you doing? Why is this taking so long? Any idea when you'll be
done with that?... And well I wigged out a little. It was a
frustrating way to go. I had a look through finder prefferences, but
I didn't see anything about settings for replacing files and the order
to replace in and the errors to show and not show. Is this normal
behavior? Is there anything I can do about it in future? I just found
a wicked lot of tunes on emusic, and most of them are albumns by
artists I already have.
By the time I get 4 gigabytes piled up I'm not going to want to go
through folder by folder and copy albumns into my music collection.
Thanks for any advice.
erik burggraaf
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