Copied

Around 8:30 PM last night, I began the copying of files from the "N" drive on the My Cloud (yes, I realize "N" means nothing to anyone but me) to my external hard drive. I came downstairs this AM, around 6 AM, and the last file was being copied. There were 18,575 (118,080,803,886 bytes) that were copied. The next step is to combine those files with the existing files on the external hard drive and weed out the duplicates. The website to retrieve file metadata (artist, song title, etc) that is automatically accessed through Windows Media Player (WMP) is still down (damnit!) so until that is either resolved or I begin using an alternative to WMP, there are likely to be duplicates. One example of why I have duplicates is I am using underscores, as in _, in my file names, but when I began this project on 12/1/2013, I was using dashes. Thus, I happen to have some files named 01_SongTitle_Artist_Album and others named 01-SongTitle-Artist-Album so if those two files are the same band and same album, it doesn't appear as a duplicate. I can get around that by setting Search My Files, the freeware app that I couldn't live without, to search for duplicates.

All of this to say that tomorrow, when I edit the reconversion statistics page on this blog, the statistics are going to be out of whack. Consider that on 9/15/2014, there were 73393 files, per the DOS batch file. If today were tomorrow, at this precise moment, those same DOS commands would give me 132610 File(s). That means there are a lot of duplicates that need to be located and eliminated. I just used Search My Files - I eliminated 6625 files. When I copied files from the N:\ drive to the external hard drive, I copied them to an alternate directory structure, but now, I'm combining them. Lots more duplicates will need to be weeded out. I do not plan to even make it downstairs to the den tonight. We are going to the Riverside Casino. I have my $2.50 in blackjack chips, my $3 off coupon for the buffet, and my coupon for $10 to be put on my card for use however I see fit. I think we will be lucky to be home before 10 PM, which is when the DVR will finish recording tonight's episode of WWE Raw. Either I will go to bed or I will zip through the episode and then go to bed.

It's Not Me, It's You

Recently, I was using Windows Media Player. I selected a music file and right-clicked. Instead of seeing the option of looking up artist and song information for the selected file, I saw an error message.

When I fired up a browser to look for more information, I found this article. The gist of this error is that it is not unique to me or my device, which is good. It's not me, it's you (the Microsoft server), which also happens to be the name of my all-time favorite Skillet song:

Glad It's Not Time to Update

Yesterday was a busy day.

After Karen, Alex, and I woke up and got ready for the day, we got in the Ford and drove to Ketelsen's to pick up our camper. We hooked up to the Ford and drove to Zwingle, which is where we store it. Then we came back home.

When we got home, I worked on the consolidation of the multiple drives on the MyCloud drive. I copied a lot of files from various drives and directory structures to the My Book drive. I had 3 copy jobs running when I finally forced myself to go to bed at 12:15 AM. Those 3 copy jobs didn't complete because they were asking for confirmation that I wanted to overwrite existing files with the same name - I used Windows Explorer instead of DOS commands.

I just ran the DOS batch file for today. I can tell by the number that I have a lot of work to do prior to next Wednesday, which is when I'll update the page on this blog with my count for 10/1/2014. The number for the day is 146398 File(s) because when I copy a directory, I don't replace the file. I choose to keep whatever copies of the file exist. This results in creating duplicate files with (#), where # is a number that is incremented each time a file with the same name is copied into that directory.

Consider this directory with 263 File(s). That's 263 files for an album that has 13 songs. That's inflating today's count by 250. I have a lot of work to do.

I am ending this post here, there is nothing below the list.

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03/20/2013  12:58 PM         4,884,608 01_Actions & Motives_10 Years_Division (10).mp3
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02/08/2014  04:45 PM         4,649,088 07_Focus_10 Years_Division (14).mp3
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07/22/2014  10:04 AM         5,249,152 08_Drug of Choice_10 Years_Division.mp3
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08/04/2014  09:20 AM         4,704,384 03_Beautiful_10 Years_Division.mp3
08/04/2014  09:20 AM         7,432,320 04_11-00 AM (Daydreamer)_10 Years_Division.mp3
08/04/2014  09:20 AM         5,496,960 05_Dying Youth_10 Years_Division.mp3
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Clean Me Up

I feel like I'm entering the home stretch with the CD reconversion. When I just ran my DOS batch file, I got 66003 File(s) as a result. My status has been ever changing over the last few weeks. Off the top of my head, this is what remains:

1. ~100 CDs that I *think* I converted, but since I'm not sure, I'm auditing them.
2. ~100 CDs that I *think* must all have the song and artist information added manually.
3. ~100 CDs that are either custom made mix CDs or Life CDs, which I have written about previously on this blog.

I *think* that's it. 300 CDs to go and so far, for the CDs in #1 above, I have been making good progress. I didn't work on the audit last night, but plan to do so tonight. I admit freely that I'm not looking forward to doing the CDs in #2 or #3 as they are going to take more time per CD. For the CDs in #2, usually, a CD is ripped in no more than 5 minutes, but if I am going to be manually typing song names and artist information, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned into an average of 10 minutes a CD. For the CDs in #3, these are all CDs that have songs that exist "somewhere" in my CDs, but because the CDs were created the way in which I did, the information is not included when I rip the CD. I get "Unknown Artist" on an "Unknown Album" (essentially). That results in at least listening to enough of the song until I recognize it. Sometimes, I don't remember the artist for the song. Sometimes I can see the album cover or recognize the voice or the drums or the riff, but can't immediately state, "That is Hypnos' "I Am the Wind" (which is a song I recognized.) These CDs rely upon my memory and since the CDs were created nearly 6 years ago (the latest Life CD I have seen is from 2008), it's not always easy to remember those details. All of this leads me to the realization that there are 80 days until my self-imposed deadline of December 1, 2014. Honestly, as I look at the calendar, there's a limited number of hours to which I can devote to this project. It'll be interesting.

Converting Away the Stacks

I'm entering the final stacks of CDs at this point and I'm happy with the progress I am making. I'm up to 66431 files. Easily, I will complete the initial CD conversion by October 1. After that, I will work on these tasks:

1. weed out any duplicate files
2. consolidate the files on the MyCloud partitions
3. audit all CDs converted

Rain Rain Rain

Nothing beats spending time with my wife and her family in a camper as it rains outside. 12 of us. Lou, Susie, mark, Karen and Megan playing cards, Jonathan and Danny and Tyler on handheld devices, Alex and Jean finding a game on television, barb and I sitting on the couch.

My imdb.com app is getting a workout.

On another note, talking with Mark R and Steve R was a highlight of this weekend. Another was going to Guardians of the Galaxy at the Elkader theater yesterday at 330 with Megan. A third highlight was not going to bed and then waking up with a terrible headache that 2 Aleve hasn't taken away.

It's not even 1 PM and I am already thinking about Vanessa's issue with Confluence. When she tries to export to PDF, there's a table that gets cut off. I think there is a way to make it work but I don't know what it is at the moment. I'm hoping to get back home fairly early so I can try to figure it out.

I'm also anxious to get home so I can see if the RoboCopy job that I left running when we left the house on Saturday morning has been completed. If it's done, I think I will be able to resume the task of consolidating the files on the MyCloud drive to some sort of structure that makes sense. I created such a mess. Each of the two times I had an external hard drive fail resulted in copying duplicates to more than one of the partitions. My goal is to reduce the number of duplicates and reduce the space being used.

It's unclear whether the plans outlined above will come to fruition.