Slow importing from Hard Drive

[gduns - with the Lord]

I have this on all 7 of my xp computers.

click my computer

right click any hard drive, and pick properties.

on the bottom of the properties dialogue box there is a check box that says allow indexing for file services for fast file finding.

also a check box for compress files to save disk space.

[ddouglass]

May be an XP Pro item? I thought it had been around since Win 2000, but could be wrong.

[MTUSUPPORT]

I also have it, on Xp Home, Pro and Media Center 2005.

[Beavis]

maybe its only on drives over 120gb

[bryant]

4th one probably has it! Better check.

[ddouglass]

Maybe only "Special" people get to use it

[George]

Originally Posted by Beavis

maybe its only on drives over 120gb

Could be it's tied in with NTFS, which the larger drives employ. I just use 80gb drives so no need to go to NTFS, which could explain why I don't have indexing.

[ddouglass]

George, I think you got it. I am so used to only using NTFS format for security that my mind doesn't register FAT anymore.

However, I don't think we have solved the problem yet (sigh)...so anyone have any other suggestions. I have about run out.

[George]

Originally Posted by George

Wonder if the source of the problem could be narrowed down.

If you set up a folder on the p.c. hard drive and imported a batch of tracks to it, then imported those tracks into Hoster, I wonder if the results would be the same.

If it is still slow, then perhaps the processor would be the common denominator.

If they imported faster, then perhaps there's something in the USB trail causing the problem.

Dunno...just brainstorming.

BLIZZARDBOY,

Did you ever try the above?

George

[blizzardboy]

Yes George I did. It was still as slow.

[Debinski]

If you want to get to the Indexing Service....

Right click on "My Computer"
choose "Manage"
Locate and expand "Services and Applications"
Locate and expand "Indexing Service"
Locate and Expand "System"
Open "Directories"
Right Click and Delete any folders or drives you don't wany indexed.
To add folders: Choose from the top menu "Action>New>Directory"

[goonie227]

Originally Posted by Beavis

maybe its only on drives over 120gb

It's on my old home computer one 40gig one 80 gig and on
my show computer twin 250gig. The old one is only an 850
and is not even supposed to run hoster.

[gduns - with the Lord]

I just Imported 7600 cd+g zips in less than 3 hours .......... Boy is this Fast

[bryant]

My question is: Do all zip files import correctly and then play properly when in the system? I had many zips that wouldn't take and then only a portion of the ones that did play correctly without errors.

It was a while ago with version 3.01 I believe.

[gduns - with the Lord]

It depends on how you ripped them, and processed them. 20% of the ones I imported for this guy didn't import. The graphics for all of his were good.

the reason the 20% didn't process was the compression of the zip was too high. I am going to unzip them tonight an process the bad ones.

[bryant]

gduns: Is what you do is unzip then re-zip at a lower compression?
How is this done, and at what compression will you be rezipping at?
Bryant

[bryant]

Oh something else guns, Can you tell a zip file by surface inspection of any kind of what compression it was zipped at?

[gduns - with the Lord]

I am running windows xp. and tried to extract it using windows, and it said compression unknown.

Either compres at a lesser compression, of import the cdg files directly.

[bryant]

Yes I know. But how much of a lesser compression?
Is there a numerical value that works?

Can you tell the compression level of a zip file before unzipping it?

[mindonstrike]

why bother compressing at all?
Why not just import as mp3g and save the hassle and then zip when you are done for archive purposes?

Sam