October 12th, 2006and the laptop problems continue
Some months ago the Porkchop bought a Macbook Pro… and yes, I was and am very jealous, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that his disc drive chooses which disc to run at random… it’s a complete crapshoot… and it’s very irritating.
Especially considering he has somewhere in the vicinity of 800 CDs that he wants burned into his iTunes.
And since his disc drive works only about five percent of the time, the plan has been to burn his CDs onto my computer and then transfer them via a FireWire cord.
First of all, considering the sheer number of CDs… burning them, then transfering them, then making sure the ones I won’t like are deleted from my files, then importing everything into his iTunes.. it’s a nightmare job.
Second, my memory is down to less than seven gigs and adding music causes issues.
Third, I have no battery for my laptop, and it’s been shutting on and off on a pretty regular basis.
Yesterday it shut down while I was importing a CD (which has happened before), but when I booted back up, my iTunes library was “damaged” and the “XML file couldn’t be found” and suddenly my 6000 song library was down to just over 1000 and all of my playlists were gone (including my Purchased playlist).
I managed to replace all the music by dragging and dropping directly from my music folder, but all of the playlists were still gone.
Then I synched my iPod… not on purpose… and so now I really can’t replace the playlists.
Here’s the question.. has anyone ever had this happen, and is there anyway I can repair a damaged XML music file? I can’t even figure out why it’s damaged.
Ain’t love grand.
Don’t feel bad, I’m trying to figure out how to have a relationship, work and avoid a health crisis while sleeping less than four hours a night.
Comment by grampa — October 12, 2006 @ 4:03 pm
you lost me at laptop in the title.
Comment by wendykat — October 12, 2006 @ 4:09 pm
Grampa.. lol, yes it is.
Wen.. 😛 That’s ’cause you stole English’s!
Comment by the insider — October 12, 2006 @ 5:05 pm
did not! it was a fair trade! i got the shiny new one. he got the virus laden crap one. see, perfectly fair to me!
Comment by wendykat — October 12, 2006 @ 9:24 pm
Totally not a fair trade!
I tried to convince the Chop that I should have his… yeah. He said no. lol
Comment by the insider — October 12, 2006 @ 9:39 pm
Can I have a laptop?
Comment by MooKe...Uh...LuCow — October 17, 2006 @ 4:20 am
you can’t just have one. you have to whore yourself out for one… like me and insider did.
Comment by wendykat — October 17, 2006 @ 7:25 am
Moo… if you TALK TO US MAYBE. 😛 😀
Wen.. um, less whore, more beg pleadingly.
Comment by the insider — October 17, 2006 @ 9:20 am
sure, whatever name you wanna give it sweetie.
Comment by wendykat — October 17, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
Um… wendy-ing? 😀
Comment by the insider — October 17, 2006 @ 1:24 pm
oh so you know how you were invited to scotland? yea… not anymore missy smartypants.
Comment by wendykat — October 17, 2006 @ 4:27 pm
Ha! I’m coming anyway so NYAH. 😛
Comment by the insider — October 17, 2006 @ 8:34 pm
dammit. you are far too clever for me. whatever shall i do? oh i know. i’ll spin you in a circle while standing in harvard square and have you find your way back to your car. that ought to keep you lost and occupied for a good week or so.
mwaaahahaaa!
Comment by wendykat — October 17, 2006 @ 10:18 pm
Brat!
Double brat!
😛
Comment by the insider — October 17, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
it’s funny cuz it’s true.
Comment by wendykat — October 18, 2006 @ 5:46 am