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From: Hugh Browton on 14 Jun 2010 12:21

Dear All �

From a client:

<quote>
Over the years we have accumulated a fairly substantial collection of photos
and music on, now, three machines. It would be really nice to have them in
one (suitably backed up and RAID-supported place) and to be able to access
them from there. iPhoto and iTunes work very hard to stop this kind of
behaviour - are there any simple tweaks in config files which would cause
them to stop being so boring and obstructive? All thoughts welcome.
</quote>


Your thoughts?

TIA


--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)

"The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the
question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Jun 2010 12:39
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:21:45 +0100, Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk>
wrote:

>
>Dear All �
>
>From a client:
>
><quote>
>Over the years we have accumulated a fairly substantial collection of photos
>and music on, now, three machines. It would be really nice to have them in
>one (suitably backed up and RAID-supported place) and to be able to access
>them from there. iPhoto and iTunes work very hard to stop this kind of
>behaviour - are there any simple tweaks in config files which would cause
>them to stop being so boring and obstructive? All thoughts welcome.
></quote>
>
>
>Your thoughts?

Don't be tempted to place iTunes or iPhoto's database directly on the
RAID. It'll be (a) very very slow, and (b) Apple don't allow for
multiple users so things will get inconsistent and break a lot.

Therefore -

1) Organise the photos and music into folders manually, on the RAID.

Optional: Choose to NOT copy the media in iTunes/iPhoto, but to use
the remote version instead.

2) Drag and drop the folders to your iTunes/iPhoto. Tada.

It's not ideal, since all play counts, encrypted music, organisation,
and edits to photos will stay local to each machine. Also, putting new
stuff into place is complicated by the extra step of hand-placing them
into the filing system on the RAID box, but that can be handled by
drag'n'drop *out* of iTunes/iPhoto.

iTunes can be resynced with the whole lot just by dragging in the
parent folder, only the new stuff will be loaded. iPhoto will
duplicate though, so you have to do it manually.

For iPhoto, if you drag one folder in at a time it'll assign the new
Event the name of the folder. You can play with the "automatic event
detection" to avoid splitting a folder into dozens of events if you
have lots of differently dated photos in there.

I do this for my music and photos, for safety reasons as much as
anything else.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the
last time you needed one?" - Tom Cargil, C++ Journal
From: Andy Hewitt on 14 Jun 2010 12:40
Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote:

> Dear All ?
>
> From a client:
>
> <quote>
> Over the years we have accumulated a fairly substantial collection of photos
> and music on, now, three machines. It would be really nice to have them in
> one (suitably backed up and RAID-supported place) and to be able to access
> them from there. iPhoto and iTunes work very hard to stop this kind of
> behaviour - are there any simple tweaks in config files which would cause
> them to stop being so boring and obstructive? All thoughts welcome.
> </quote>
>
>
> Your thoughts?

You could just assign one machine to hold them all, and turn on
'Sharing'.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Hugh Browton on 15 Jun 2010 05:14
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:39:32 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote
(in article <d9mc16h880oavqaj2hdoc6bbakc5nmkddf(a)4ax.com>):

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:21:45 +0100, Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear All �
>>
>> From a client:
>>
>> <quote>
>> Over the years we have accumulated a fairly substantial collection of
>> photos
>> and music on, now, three machines. It would be really nice to have them in
>> </quote>
>>
>>
>> Your thoughts?
>
> Don't be tempted to place iTunes or iPhoto's database directly on the
> RAID. It'll be (a) very very slow, and (b) Apple don't allow for
> multiple users so things will get inconsistent and break a lot.
>
> Therefore -
>
> 1) Organise the photos and music into folders manually, on the RAID.
>

<snipped, but retained>

Big thanks to Jaimie and Andy. Passed on to client (well, he's a friend too,
so nice to help!)


--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)

"The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the
question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)

From: Hugh Browton on 15 Jun 2010 13:39
Jamie �

Client replies:

Please pass on my thanks to your correspondents.

To Jaimie I would also remark that I once heard Vicky Stavridou - no dope,
see http://en.scientificcommons.org/42898711 - remark that she thought
'anyone who could fully understand the procedure calling mechanism of C++
would find category theory relatively trivial'....



--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)

"The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the
question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)

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