Friday, February 02, 2007
last night tried to kill me
You don't realize how much your life revolves around technology until it suddenly turns on you and begins kicking you in the nuts.
Two nights ago my external hard drive (where I keep all my music and pictures) suddenly informed me it needed to be formatted. Since I've been using it for two years, I knew this was a sign that something had gone wrong - and most likely that it was at the end of it's usefulness. Now I have cd backups of 99% of my music and my pictures, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of reloading them all unless I absolutely had to.
So I did a search for one of those programs you can download that will let you pull your songs off your iPod onto your computer. Once I found one I now had to get my hands on a new external hard drive. Since most of my disposable income is being spent on debt retirement (and I'm not willing to get $200 off track all at once) this was going to be a problem. Luckily, the Colonel stepped in and offered to let me borrow an extra one he had.
Problem solved, right? Wrong. Last night I plugged the new external hard drive in and kept getting an I/O error message. After a little Googling I figured out I just needed to format the new drive - which wouldn't be a problem since it was empty.
Once that was sorted it was time to pull my music off my iPod onto the new hard drive using the program I had downloaded - except it seems the app I chose was a trial version and didn't support that particular function. If I wanted the ability to do that, I had to actually buy the software. Not wanting to spend any money, and being a little wary of a third party app messing with my iPod anyway, I decided just to delete my iTunes library and start over from scratch uploading all my music from CD. I figured this would give me a chance to not load some of the crap I didn't want this time around and make sure all my file names were better labeled.
Before I did that, though, I decided to do some routine maintenance on the ol' laptop. Specifically, I wanted to sort out some stuff with my wireless connection. That didn't go so well. I ended up having to reload my wireless card drivers and spend about an hour fiddling with my settings.
Around 9:00 I finally started loading music onto the new external hard drive. I got about 400 songs before I decided I couldn't look at a computer screen anymore.
Technology, sometimes you really chaff my ass.
what was the ipod application you downloaded?
It was called Anapod. Basically, it lets you access your iPod as if it were an external hard drive - which iPods in general let you do, but the Anapod program give you a little easier access to files & such.
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Two nights ago my external hard drive (where I keep all my music and pictures) suddenly informed me it needed to be formatted. Since I've been using it for two years, I knew this was a sign that something had gone wrong - and most likely that it was at the end of it's usefulness. Now I have cd backups of 99% of my music and my pictures, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of reloading them all unless I absolutely had to.
So I did a search for one of those programs you can download that will let you pull your songs off your iPod onto your computer. Once I found one I now had to get my hands on a new external hard drive. Since most of my disposable income is being spent on debt retirement (and I'm not willing to get $200 off track all at once) this was going to be a problem. Luckily, the Colonel stepped in and offered to let me borrow an extra one he had.
Problem solved, right? Wrong. Last night I plugged the new external hard drive in and kept getting an I/O error message. After a little Googling I figured out I just needed to format the new drive - which wouldn't be a problem since it was empty.
Once that was sorted it was time to pull my music off my iPod onto the new hard drive using the program I had downloaded - except it seems the app I chose was a trial version and didn't support that particular function. If I wanted the ability to do that, I had to actually buy the software. Not wanting to spend any money, and being a little wary of a third party app messing with my iPod anyway, I decided just to delete my iTunes library and start over from scratch uploading all my music from CD. I figured this would give me a chance to not load some of the crap I didn't want this time around and make sure all my file names were better labeled.
Before I did that, though, I decided to do some routine maintenance on the ol' laptop. Specifically, I wanted to sort out some stuff with my wireless connection. That didn't go so well. I ended up having to reload my wireless card drivers and spend about an hour fiddling with my settings.
Around 9:00 I finally started loading music onto the new external hard drive. I got about 400 songs before I decided I couldn't look at a computer screen anymore.
Technology, sometimes you really chaff my ass.
what was the ipod application you downloaded?
It was called Anapod. Basically, it lets you access your iPod as if it were an external hard drive - which iPods in general let you do, but the Anapod program give you a little easier access to files & such.
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