Re: Argosy HD-363N

On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 2:46:02 PM, Tim Hill wrote:

> Curious indeed. I think you're right in focusing on TOCMaker -- if you
> can get that fixed, I think the AT fix will come along for the ride.

> To make sure we're on the same page: Explorer can see *all* the folders,
> but TOMMaker, when run on the same computer cannot? What do you see from
> (say) a Command (MS-DOS) prompt using the DIR command? I've not used
> TOCMaker (though I'm familiar with its function)... does it only list
> directories that have songs in them? In which case, it's driven by the
> *content* of the folder, and not the name?


Ah, another good point!  When I do a "DIR" on my full music directory
it seems to show all of the subdirectories.  And TOCMaker does list
empty directories, so it's not being fooled by an apparent lack of
files in some of them.

Another disadvantage of the Argosy that I forgot to mention earlier is
that it seems to overwrite the timestamp on files when you copy them
to it.  This totally breaks my system of keeping the remote copy of my
music database synchronized with the "master" copy on my desktop
computer, which was to use a tree-synchronization program (TreeComp;
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lploeger/TreeComp3.htm) to transfer changes from
my master to the remote.  Without being able to rely on timestamps it
can only use file size to note changes, which I assume will miss minor
changes like MP3Gain adjustments or minor fixes in ID3 tags.  Bummer!

  -- Robin