Hi, I often copy to my IPod temporarily.
Thanks, Alex, On 23-May-09, at 8:04 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Jude, > > The problem you ran into is not iTunes specific, but due to a full > disk. When you do a copy and paste, you're storing a temporary > duplicate of the contents you copy on your disk drive. If there's no > space to do the copy, then that won't work. There are other ways to > free up disk space in a pinch, including emptying all caches and > browsing history associated with Safari, checking whether there are > downloaded files you no longer need, etc. > > You can transfer podcasts the same way you would other files. I would > use Greg Kearney's "Move" automator action from the GUI, but if you're > comfortable working from terminal and the command line, that will also > work. The advantage of using the terminal and the command line with > wild cards is that if you're short of space, you can specify a whole > block of matching files at one time, but do the copy operation one by > one, so you might be copying 50 files in your current directory, but > executing this as 50 individual commands. If you did this in the GUI > by selecting all 50 files, you'd have to find disk storage space for > all 50 of them while your system did the copy. > > Here's an example. I attach a USB memory stick and check in Finder. > The memory stick shows up under my devices in the sidebar as > "Crucial". Finder also has a status line that will tell you how much > space is available on any selected device -- that includes your > Macintosh HD. Use item chooser menu (VO-I) and check "available". > This works in any view (list, icon, or column). After checking the > available space on your memory stick, you might want to create a > folder for the transfer contents. Let's call this "overflow". > > On my Mac the memory stick is identified as: > /Volumes/Crucial > You may have some other device name in place of "Crucial". The folder > I created is identifed as: > /Volumes/Crucial/overflow > > Start up a terminal session from FInder (Command-Shift-U to Utilities, > press "t" to navigate to Terminal, use your favorite way to launch app > -- e.g. Command-Down Arrow, Command-O, etc.). Move to the directory > you want to copy, for example, to get to your top level podcasts > directory use: > > cd "Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/" > > You can copy and paste the above into your terminal session. I assume > you are starting from your home directory (the default when you open a > new terminal session, or else you can first issue the "cd" command > with no arguments to place yourself back in your home directory). For > new VoiceOver users, every terminal command is followed by pressing > the carriage return key to execute it, and case (as in capital "P" for > Podcasts) matters. > > Again, you should use "cd" to move to a specific podcast folder, but > the name you give will depend on your podcast subscriptions. For > example, I might type: > > cd "Blind Cool Tech" > > where I enclose the folder name in quotation marks, and type the > entire name while keeping track of upper and lower case letters. Once > in the folder I can copy individual or groups of podcasts. The Blind > Cool Tech podcasts all start with episode numbers in their iTunes > names, which are now in the 1000 series, so a command like: > > cp 1* /Volumes/Crucial/overflow > > will copy all files in the current directory with names beginning with > "1" to the overflow folder I created on my Crucial USB memory stick. > Be very careful when working with wild cards like the asterisk. New > VoiceOver users who are not familiar with unix or the terminal > navigation should not try to use wild card file matches. A good place > to learn about Terminal is the book, "Take Control of the Mac Command > Line with Terminal" that was released 2 months ago ($10 for > downloadable PDF file): > > http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line > > > Here are some general guidelines: > > • Delete tracks from iTunes using the iTunes delete command -- don't > use finder. That way your iTunes database will contain the correct > information on what's in your library. > > • If this is the first time you are ever backing up your podcasts, > check that you can restore a file with full information by deleting > one of your latest podcasts (something you can easily get back from > the feed), and using Command-O (Add to Library). When you select the > file in your dialog window (e.g., by finding the podcast episode file > in the overflow folder on your USB memory stick) you should get back > everything except metadata like when you last played the file or how > many times you listened to it. Then you can be confident that all > needed information will be restored. > > • You can write tracks in data disc format onto CD and DVD. These CDs > and DVDs can be read into any other iTunes Library whether on a > Windows or Mac computer. Although you can't play these in a DVD or CD > player -- only in another computer or maybe an mp3 CD pIayer that > support this structure on discs that only contain mp3 files -- this > works well for data storage. I also find that using iTunes to write > out data CDs or DVDs is substantially faster than using Disk Utility > to burn the same files, quite apart from the cross-platform support. > In Tiger, if I added instructional videos to my PowerBook's iTunes > library, created a playlist, and burned a CD or DVD using iTunes, the > task would complete at least two times faster than using Disk Utility. > It was worth adding the tracks to my iTunes library even if I never > used iTunes to play the video files. Create a playlist, then either > use the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) for the playlist in the source > table to choose "Burn Playlist to Disc", or press (VO-Space) the "Burn > Disc" button. You can VO-Down arrow from the songs table to read the > summary status line for number of items, total time, and space usage > of your playlist, then VO-right arrow to the "Burn Disc" button. > Choose a format of "Data CD or DVD" in the dialog window, insert a > blank CD or DVD, and press the "Burn" button. Remember that you must > have at least as much disc space free on your hard drive as the > content you will be burning to CD or DVD. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On May 23, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> >> I ended up with a disk that got too full so had to toss over 5,000 >> podcasts into the trash then empty the trash so iTunes could work >> normally >> again. The iTunes would not permit me to do anything else with >> them; I >> tried several times to copy and paste those to a zip disk and even a >> CD >> but was prevented because the disk was too full. What's the transfer >> procedure to run regularly so this situation doesn't arise anymore? >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
