On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 12:00PM, Andrew Rodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...if I throw out some tracks to make the requisite space - plus some >- when I come to adding the new music I get a dialogue saying there is >not enough room. > >I have also found this when I am up to the wire with space on the disc >(which only has music on it, nothing else) and I am converting an mp3 >file into say an AAC file, it claims there is not enough room even >though I have thrown out tracks which account for space many time over >the space required. When I say thrown out I do mean thrown out, not >left in the bin or removed from the library but not the disc. > >However, I have found that if I put something in the bin which is not >music and then empty the bin, the space is cleared. Happens every >time. I just create a blank text file, save it to disc and then throw >it out and away goes the junked music and I can function again. Is >this not bizarre? Is it peculiar to my G4 or does this sound familiar >to anyone else before I mention this to Apple? Sounds t ome like your iTunes Music Library is not being refreshed correctly when you trash the music. What filing system is running on the disk? IF it is HFS+ Journalling that might be an issue to do with iTunes not interecting with the Journalling FS properly. Dunno, I'm just throwing ideas about. >I am interested to note that, because I used an M dash instead of a >hyphen the server bounced this mail: > >> LIST module(list mac-uk) reports: >> Your message cannot be posted. >> It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set, >> and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only >> > >Seems a little "picky" to me and suggesting I am using Windows I find >quite offensive :0] It does this a lot and I find it frightfully annoying, but I guess it's to keep it strictly plain text only and to make is accessible to the maximum number of localisations. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
