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Ah. 'Tis Good Friday and we are at home.

It is raining and the Northern Line is suspended between High Barnet and East Finchley. Until Tuesday morning. This means additional aggravation should we decide to venture out of the Barnet/Whetstone/North Finchley area, for which we would normally employ feet or the bus anyway. On the other hand, being Good Friday, it is likely that outside of the West End, most of the interesting small shops will be closed, though the big stores will be open.

At the moment, Furtle has control of the external drive from my PC and is experiencing the annoyance that comes with trying to perform what should be a comparatively simple task using any half-decent OS. I keep my i-Tunes library on the external disk quite deliberately to facilitate the movement of files between my PC and my laptop and to do away with the need to burn occasional time and space consuming back up disks. Since over 90% of the tunes we have are taken from CDs we own, most of the music in either my or Furtle's library is transferable in this way. Any music we have bought from iTunes will copy between computers and play on them, but will not transfer to the other's iPod. This isn't much of a hassle: there's still enough music to go around and whilst I like the odd Billy Idol track I can live without it on my iPod!

The trouble is, of course, that we are talking gigabytes of material, so that makes the process time-consuming. Additionally, neither iTunes nor Windows are quite as clever as they would have you believe. In theory, click and drag should move stuff from a folder into iTunes and in a way it does. The song appears in the Library, but the file remains where it was, so as soon as the external drive is removed, there is nothing form iTunes to link to. So, we are using Windows Explorer to copy the files from my external drive to Furtle's own iTunes folder and then we will have to tell iTunes to import the files into the iTunes Library. Then we will have to remove duplicates.

Such fun and time-consuming, too.

We will be nipping out to buy eggs shortly, if the rain holds off.

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Ah. 'Tis Good Friday and we are at home.

It is raining and the Northern Line is suspended between High Barnet and East Finchley. Until Tuesday morning. This means additional aggravation should we decide to venture out of the Barnet/Whetstone/North Finchley area, for which we would normally employ feet or the bus anyway. On the other hand, being Good Friday, it is likely that outside of the West End, most of the interesting small shops will be closed, though the big stores will be open.

At the moment, Furtle has control of the external drive from my PC and is experiencing the annoyance that comes with trying to perform what should be a comparatively simple task using any half-decent OS. I keep my i-Tunes library on the external disk quite deliberately to facilitate the movement of files between my PC and my laptop and to do away with the need to burn occasional time and space consuming back up disks. Since over 90% of the tunes we have are taken from CDs we own, most of the music in either my or Furtle's library is transferable in this way. Any music we have bought from iTunes will copy between computers and play on them, but will not transfer to the other's iPod. This isn't much of a hassle: there's still enough music to go around and whilst I like the odd Billy Idol track I can live without it on my iPod!

The trouble is, of course, that we are talking gigabytes of material, so that makes the process time-consuming. Additionally, neither iTunes nor Windows are quite as clever as they would have you believe. In theory, click and drag should move stuff from a folder into iTunes and in a way it does. The song appears in the Library, but the file remains where it was, so as soon as the external drive is removed, there is nothing form iTunes to link to. So, we are using Windows Explorer to copy the files from my external drive to Furtle's own iTunes folder and then we will have to tell iTunes to import the files into the iTunes Library. Then we will have to remove duplicates.

Such fun and time-consuming, too.

We will be nipping out to buy eggs shortly, if the rain holds off.