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My continued problem and a question
tlcmd:
BryanC,
I'm lost!! I've attempted everything as you suggested and I have the MC21 Linux properly displaying everything properly (as it does in MC21 Windows), but when I click "Play" I get a message that the file cannot be found. I suspect I've somehow NOT changed the path properly.
In my Windows partition, I have C drive with my music folder under Dick under documents & Settings (C:\documents&settings\dick\music "I think"), but in my Linux partition, I have /home/dick/music
How do I fix this?
All my files are backed up on an external HDD.
Although I've been running Linux for several years, I'm still only semi-literate in it and, as you can tell from my previous posts on INTERACT, still a klutz. Thank heavens those of you on this forum have the patience of Job.
Any help at this point would really be appreciated.
Thank you again. BTW, I'm reasonably intelligent as I do have an MD degree and practiced medicine for 30 years. But I'm in over my head here.
tlcmd
bob:
Paths on linux are case sensitive!
Perhaps your music directory is Music ??
tlcmd:
Bob,
It indeed is Music. I'm still lost. How do I reset the path since I am not sure what my Windows path is? I just guessed at it in my previous post based on my windows music folder being in the folder Dick which is in the Documents & Settings folder on C drive.
Or is there a way to simply go in "somewhere" and change the path to /home/dick/Music (I got the case right here).
Thanks, it's always the little things that are obvious which you don't see.
tlcmd
Mike Noe:
tlcmd, are you sure the NTFS vol is mounted? For example, the NTFS vol could be mounted on /home/mike/Edrive (check your /etc/fstab).
From there, for example, the path for all of the files in MC(linux) is "/home/mike/Edrive/Media/My Music/".
Of course, in Windows, the drive is "E:", so the path in MC(Windows) is "E:\Media\My Music\"
tlcmd:
Mike,
Thanks for the reply. I do not need the C drive (Windows) as I have both a Windows Partition and a Linux Partition, but my Linux partition has the Music folder on it also (sort of a dual back up). So, MC21 for Linux accesses the Music folder in the Linux partition and MC21 (Windows) accesses the music folder on the Windows partition. I know it is redundancy, but with all the extra space on my HDD...
But I have tried letting my Linux MC21 accessing my music folder in my Windows partition and my external HDD with the same result.
I believe if I can set the path for my Linux MC 21 to /home/dick/Music it should work properly.
At least now I have the music files, artists and albums and genres set up properly in my Linux MC21. I've got a 2 TiB HDD, and even with everything I've got on my computer, it is probably more than 80% free space. My Music folder is 42 Gigs.
To answer the unasked question: This computer came with Windows 8.1 and as my wife is wedded to Windows on both her laptop and desktop, I am trying to keep up with Windows for when she needs help.
Again,
thanks for the input.
tlcmd
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