Inexplicable - Computer self deleting files
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I have just added to my question about MP3 Storage but this is such a problem I have decided to start a new topic.
I have just ripped hundreds of MP3's from a quarter of my CD collection to start storing as MP3. Having done so and bunged them all in one file, I have stopped burning and started to go through them all (currently they are numbered and dated only) in order to add correct names to them.
In the process, the computer is every so often self deleting whole clumps of music files, around 8 to 12 at a time. They vanish, self combust and have no input from me. They don't go to the recycle bin, they just go full stop. I am not making mistakes, or doing it in error. I am simply renaming files, mostly successfully, and then every so often I see the file list shift where whole clumps of MP3's spontaneously combust. They are lost forever, and it is hard to work out which ones are missing as there is no trace or reason for them going. The only thing I get sometimes is a "Media Player encountered a problem" when trying to play an MP3 file - but this doesn't even make sense as earlier tonight it said this about a file I had played successfully 2 seconds earlier. I only went to rename it, which is when it said it couldn't find it, then wham, a whole list of MP3's vanish.
What is this?
I have just ripped hundreds of MP3's from a quarter of my CD collection to start storing as MP3. Having done so and bunged them all in one file, I have stopped burning and started to go through them all (currently they are numbered and dated only) in order to add correct names to them.
In the process, the computer is every so often self deleting whole clumps of music files, around 8 to 12 at a time. They vanish, self combust and have no input from me. They don't go to the recycle bin, they just go full stop. I am not making mistakes, or doing it in error. I am simply renaming files, mostly successfully, and then every so often I see the file list shift where whole clumps of MP3's spontaneously combust. They are lost forever, and it is hard to work out which ones are missing as there is no trace or reason for them going. The only thing I get sometimes is a "Media Player encountered a problem" when trying to play an MP3 file - but this doesn't even make sense as earlier tonight it said this about a file I had played successfully 2 seconds earlier. I only went to rename it, which is when it said it couldn't find it, then wham, a whole list of MP3's vanish.
What is this?
ryanthescot said:
if you have a lot of mp3s in the same folder (as it sounds like from your description) then when you are renaming them are they not getting sorted and displayed at a different point in the list of files in the folder? try searching for the filename within the folder. it's very unlikely that they are going anywhere or they are being removed.
also it makes sense that when you rename the file your media player cant find it anymore because it will use the path to the file which includes the filename that's now been changed.
Yes they are moving when I name them but its not this. Files are being wiped and its getting faster. For example I had a load named June 07 1 onto June 07 28 which are 28 mp3s from June 2007. I listened to and named three then the rest just vanishes.also it makes sense that when you rename the file your media player cant find it anymore because it will use the path to the file which includes the filename that's now been changed.
Crafty_ said:
My guess would be the drive is damaged/failing.
What are you using to rip the files ? Is it some sort of weird catalog thing where the program is deleting because they aren't in the library.
You could set up Process Monitor from here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb...
it will show you which applications are using which files.
If you downloaded media monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) it will rip the MP3s, correctly tag them from the internet and name them according to the tags in whatever format you like e.g. I use "artist - title.mp3" but you can stick the album name, track number, all sorts into it, you can organise the file structure too, e.g. all my stuff goes in to E:\Music\Artist\Album\.
Im just using media player to rip. They then have all appeared in my folder. Its only when open, listen or try to rename them that randomly, clumps are wiped. What are you using to rip the files ? Is it some sort of weird catalog thing where the program is deleting because they aren't in the library.
You could set up Process Monitor from here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb...
it will show you which applications are using which files.
If you downloaded media monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) it will rip the MP3s, correctly tag them from the internet and name them according to the tags in whatever format you like e.g. I use "artist - title.mp3" but you can stick the album name, track number, all sorts into it, you can organise the file structure too, e.g. all my stuff goes in to E:\Music\Artist\Album\.
Just downloaded EAC and been through the biggest ballache of all ballache - trying to download lame files from the internet to make the program work which could not then be found as the directory does not exist etc etc absolute f
king ballache so fk it, whole project scrapped and I am going to have to do it all manually just slowly and carefully. Not worth the hassle I have just had to endure trying to install the program.
king ballache so fk it, whole project scrapped and I am going to have to do it all manually just slowly and carefully. Not worth the hassle I have just had to endure trying to install the program.Not ripping from purchased CD's but that's ok, I can do it manually. However, I think I have identified the vanishing issue.
When transfering from each CD it always names them Track 1 to 10 etc. Therefore I am having to rename them before I even transfer them into the initial file as each rip produces the same names and therefore it duplicates filenames evey time. I have been renaming clumps of them using mouse press and shift, and the computer is auto naming them. I have then been renaming them again to what I want them to be called, and it is in the process that after a few renames, the file suddenly is unrecognisable and is lost. It just happened when trying to save the next load of tracks 1 to 10 ripped from mediamonkey.
When transfering from each CD it always names them Track 1 to 10 etc. Therefore I am having to rename them before I even transfer them into the initial file as each rip produces the same names and therefore it duplicates filenames evey time. I have been renaming clumps of them using mouse press and shift, and the computer is auto naming them. I have then been renaming them again to what I want them to be called, and it is in the process that after a few renames, the file suddenly is unrecognisable and is lost. It just happened when trying to save the next load of tracks 1 to 10 ripped from mediamonkey.
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