Re: Argosy HD-363N

Well, the plot thickens indeed...

So DIR shows all of them, which is a good sign. I cannot for the life of
me think what could make TOCMaker miss folders like that -- both
TOCMaker and DIR are basically using the same APIs. Are there any
curious attributes on the folders themselves -- Windows does odd things
with the Read Only attribute on a folder (not a file)?

I just glanced at the TOCMaker source code: nothing jumped out, buffer
sizes looked ok. One interesting note is that TOCMaker skips "System"
folders, that is, those that have the System attribute set. I doubt it's
an issue, but this might be worth a quick check.

--Tim




Robin Mitchell wrote:

>On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 2:46:02 PM, Tim Hill wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>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.
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>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!
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