*updated*<\/p>\n
The studio laptop has thrown me two non-fatal BSODs in the last month.<\/p>\n
The first thing I did after recovering from the first, was to check drivers. The system identified a USB driver issue, which I had a feeling I have known about for some time.<\/p>\n
But I can’t resolve it, right now, because the box of drivers is upstairs, fully packed away, in one of the large cardboard boxes in the spare bedroom.<\/p>\n
After the second BSOD (happened about three weeks after the first) I looked harder at the studio laptop’s hard disk.<\/p>\n
Hmm.<\/p>\n
Space was a little tight, with over 75% of the 149Gb hard disk full.<\/p>\n
And I know that having a hard disk close to its maximum can lead to non-fatal BSOD error messages.<\/p>\n
I don’t have MS-Office on the studio laptop, but I do have quite a bit of editing software (the very large Sony Vegas Pro, and the almost equally chunky Cubase, as well as a handful of smaller audio and video editing tools and file conversion utilities).<\/p>\n
I can’t remove the editing tools\/conversion utilities, obviously, because this is why the studio laptop exists.<\/p>\n
But I have deleted a metric fuckton of completed video and audio edits, because they were already stored in audio and video project libraries on the NAS.<\/p>\n
Then I looked at what else was left behind.<\/p>\n
Music.<\/p>\n
Slightly under 60Gb of music.<\/p>\n
Slightly under 60Gb of music which is already backed up on the NAS.<\/p>\n
So why is it on the hard disk of the studio laptop?<\/p>\n
Because iTunes needs a local drive to work with.<\/p>\n
And because of that simple rule, all of my music files have been stored in c:\\documents and settings\\[username]\\my documents\\my music\\itunes\\itunes music<\/p>\n
Why is the music stored in that tediously long address?<\/p>\n
Because the studio laptop precedes the arrival of the NAS by several years. And because although I have backed up my music library to the NAS every week, I have never migrated the iTunes functionality off the c:\\<\/p>\n
Because I have never got around to mapping a drive to the NAS.<\/p>\n
Well all that is changing.<\/p>\n
I have mapped z:\\ to the NAS. I have given the mapping the appropriate permissions to read\/write to the appropriate NAS directory.<\/p>\n
And as I type this, iTunes is copying 7,081 songs from c:\\etc to\u00a0z:\\my music\\itunes<\/p>\n
Erm.<\/p>\n
Hopefully.<\/p>\n
I say ‘hopefully’ because I won’t know if this has worked until I plug my iPod in, and it (hopefully) syncs with the library in the new location.<\/p>\n
And I won’t be able to plug my iPod in to sync it, because moving 7,081 songs from c:\\etc over to z:\\etc is taking a really really really long time. Even though I’m directly connected to the router via Ethernet cable, and the router is directly connected to the NAS via Ethernet cable.<\/p>\n
Oh well.<\/p>\n
Fingers crossed that it all turns out alright, eh?<\/p>\n
Anyway, when I’ve been able to validate that this musical migration has been successful, I will return to the hard disk of the studio laptop and delete the 60Gb of music.<\/p>\n
And then I will start running serious diagnostics on the cause of the non-fatal BSOD.<\/p>\n
See?<\/p>\n
There is method to my madness.<\/p>\n
Sortov.<\/p>\n
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Well, it worked.<\/p>\n
And then I deleted the (now) duplicate music files on the c:\\<\/p>\n
And the studio laptop is down to 39.9Gb occupied and 109Gb free.<\/p>\n
And it’s a lot quicker than it was.<\/p>\n
And the iTunes migration plays nicely from the z:\\ drive that I mapped to the NAS.<\/p>\n
So yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
*updated* The studio laptop has thrown me two non-fatal BSODs in the last month. The first thing I did after recovering from the first, was to check drivers. The system identified a USB driver issue, which I had a feeling I have known about for some time. But I can’t \u2026 Continue reading