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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Copy and Paste from a txt file to a directory

« on: August 31, 2010, 10:39 AM »

A question that potential coders might want answered: Can you copy files to your device in windows explorer?

-SleepingWolf (August 31, 2010, 08:44 AM)

Yes. That is the only way and only program (windows copy) that I have found that will copy the files (other than third party programs ie WinAmp that treat it as a USB drive and therefore very slow). If I copy and paste the files all together, they are NOT copied in sequential order and that is the problem.

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Unfinished Requests / UNFINISHED: Copy and Paste from a txt file to a directory

« on: August 23, 2010, 11:06 AM »

Here is my ongoing dilemma that I have been trying to fix but due to the nuances of windows and it's interaction with hardware it does not seem to stay fixed long.

I have a MP3 player that will work as a USB device or a Portable Media Player in My Computer.
If I make it look like a USB device, it transfer data at a snails pace. I have not been able to find out why or update firmware and see if that will help. The device is no longer supported by the manufacture but works great and keeps a charge forever.

If I make it look like a Portable Media device, the transfer rates are acceptable.

I have tried all kinds of programs to bulk transfer the files without success. Even the wonderful filebucket! None will see the device when it is in Portable Media Mode. I want the files in a particular order because the order they are transferred will dictate the order they are played.

So my newest idea is to copy a list of the files I want copied to a text file and then read them one by one to be copied to the device using windows copy program.

Example:

copy.txt

c:\a\1.mp3
c:\a\2.mp3
c:\a\3.mp3
c:\b\9.mp3
c:\b\10.mp3

Now I would like to copy all the files to "My Computer\Insignia KIX\Fixed storage" This could also be the only other opened window.

The trick here is to have the program recognize the media player. All the programs I have tried will not recognize the media player in this configuration. Some will let me find the directory in the program but do nothing when running the program.

Any input is always welcomed. Thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I Need, I Pay

« on: July 19, 2010, 11:41 AM »

Pandia Powersearch uses Google's results, by default, with lots of ads.  Its a junk website that doesn't do what the OP asked.

-Veign (July 17, 2010, 01:56 PM)

I use Firefox with adblock so I do not get any advertising. You can change the default search engine or use it as a metasearch engine which is what the requester was asking about.
There is even a tutorial on the site on how to make best use of search engines.

A tool is only as good as the operator.

BTW, it was the first site that came up while doing a cursory search and looked interesting. I mentioned that further investigation would be prudent to find one that was a good fit.
I was also suggesting that the tools were possibly available to do what was needed without having to pay for it or at least have an educated idea on what you would be paying for.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I Need, I Pay

« on: July 17, 2010, 12:03 PM »

Actually it is very easy to do yourself without a lot of coding.

A quick search of "metasearch engines" turned up this gem Pandia Powersearch. It states "Pandia Powersearch is our all-in-one list of search engines and directories. Search the Web using the search form above, or select one of the categories below to find the best Internet search tools."

It also has this blurb;

List of search engines and directories

The databases used by search engines are made by "robots" or "spiders" that automatically map the Web by following the links between sites. The directories, on the other hand, contain sites that are hand picked by human beings. Still, most search sites present search engine as well as directory results. Metasearch engines gather results from several search engines and directories. They are not that good at advanced Boolean searching, but may provide you with a broad sweep of the Web.

Traditional search engines list normal web pages and some other file types that are interlinked to from such webpages. The database sites, however, give you access to data that are not part of the Web as such. See also sites focusing on the hidden Web below.

So if you educate yourself on some of the hidden features of search engine commands like Google's commands found here http://www.seowarrio...et/google-search-co/ (just one of many sites with the info), you can find almost anything without the crap!

Lots of luck! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name

« on: June 28, 2010, 04:19 PM »

IainB "As an encouragement, I would suggest that you might pick it up quite quickly if you have no techo background to cloud your thinking with preconceptions."

No truer words were ever spoken!

I am an electronics engineer by trade and now a nurse. My specialty was automation and controls.

It has been tough to wrap my mind around how they want "nurses" to think. What seems simple to the people who do not have a technical background take on a whole new meaning to me.  

I am far ahead of what they are expecting and I have to remember to go from a to b to c instead of jumping right into c because I "know" it is right. I have also been working in the medical field for the last 4 years which also hinders that KISS thinking.

Some of us think in binary and some of us think in analog and some of us keep confusing the 10!!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name

« on: June 25, 2010, 01:12 PM »

I use this - prune it how you like.
Having the date in ISO format at the front of the file name makes for good document filing/sorting.

AutoHotKey script:

^+d::  ; Ctrl+Shift+d outputs current date+time
   FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy-MM-dd HHmm  ; It will look like 2010-12-21 0353hrs
   SendInput %CurrentDateTime%hrs
   return

-IainB (June 25, 2010, 12:26 PM)

Sweet!  

Thanks! Hopefully I will have more time to work on learning AHK to be able to know that it takes a whole two lines of code to do this!

BTW works like a charm.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name

« on: June 25, 2010, 12:19 PM »

is this what you're looking for? TimeStamp 2.1 by Skrommel..

• https://www.donation....msg116805#msg116805

-lanux128 (June 25, 2010, 11:53 AM)

Thanks for the link. Will have to take a look...one thing I notice is the formatting...certain characters are no no for file naming.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name

« on: June 25, 2010, 11:30 AM »

While backing up some info today, I thought how cumbersome it is to type the date and time into the file name. It would be nice to have a shortcut that could do that.
Yes I know there is a time/date stamp on the file BUT this makes the file name unique too.

EX:

            "inserted text"
foobar 06_25_10 9-30am (does not have to follow this exact format just an idea)

Apologies up front if this has already been done but unfortunately I have not been able to find it.

Thanks!
Larry

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« on: March 22, 2010, 06:20 PM »

If you do not need compression, I have used the program Allway Sync for keeping info synced up.
It is free, fast and powerful.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: MP3Drive

« on: March 12, 2010, 02:26 PM »

I came across this fix and wa lah! everything is coming up roses. 

-wetsmellydog (March 11, 2010, 05:35 PM)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0 

-brotherS (March 12, 2010, 04:09 AM)

Should I say, "pardon my French"?!? 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: MP3Drive

« on: March 11, 2010, 05:35 PM »

While checking out old posts, I came across this one in which I was having the same problem. My Insignia MP3 player would slow down to a crawl transferring files when in USB mode. I like to copy my MP3 files the old fashion way without any additional software but the standard file system did not recognize the drive when it was in "Portable Media Device Mode" wanting to use "Media Transfer Protocal".

I came across this fix and wa lah! everything is coming up roses. 


crws
09.29.2008 at 08:25AM PDT, ID: 22597349
I don't believe this question was answered, so here is the solution:
Right click "My Computer", select properties -> Hardware -> Device Manager. You will see something in the nature of "Portable Media Device" listed in the device tree. Double click or right click your corresponding item. Select Driver -> Update Driver -> Install from List -> Don't Search -> Show compatible hardware. In the selection options should be "USB Mass Storage Device"  (The inf file for this is usbstor.inf). This method will  install your MP3 player with a drive letter, and skip the preconfigured Windows Media assignments...

Hope this helps someone else.
       

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 08, 2009, 07:32 PM »

Website | Download

v1.0.2 - 2009-11-07
    + Added up/down buttons to move a contiguous selection up and down through the lower listview.  (Thanks, wetsmellydog)
    + Added ctrl-up/ctrl-down hotkeys to move a contiguous selection up and down through the lower listview.
    * Changed the icon look.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-skwire (November 07, 2009, 04:00 PM)

SKWIRE U DA MAN! 

Works like a charm. It is EXACTLY what I have been looking for.

Thanks for tweaking an already great program.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 07, 2009, 02:22 PM »

as the only consistency appears to be the order in which the files are copied I'm wondering why just dragging and dropping the files individually won't have the desired effect

I'm not being glib here, it just seems like you would likely need to do some preparatory work (renaming, merging, etc) before you dropped the files to another app just to sort them in the sequence of the day so you could copy them to your player.  I have no idea how many files were talking about here but at the end of the day it might be quicker and simpler to just copy the files individually (sorry, that's not a very spectacular solution...)

-Target (November 04, 2009, 09:48 PM)

Hi Target,

That is what I have to do now. I will copy 10-20 files at a time, so doing it one at a time is cumbersome. The frustrating part is that only a few files will be out of order when copied to a copy program (like terracopy and filebucket) which do not let you sort your copy list prior to the actual copying. SKWIRE is going to modify his program filebucket to allow this feature which will solve the problem.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 07, 2009, 02:16 PM »

If this is the case, then the player MUST be keeping track of the order as you add files.  I can easily extend File Bucket to allow you to sort the list you create in the lower pane before you copy the files to your MP3 player.  Will this be acceptable?

-skwire (November 04, 2009, 11:37 PM)

That would be great! That is what I was trying to get across in my previous post when I tried the program.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 04, 2009, 09:28 PM »

    * how are the files named?

They are usually alpha-numerical

    * how do you want them sorted?

I normally sort them by the mp3 ID Tag info ie track number, but I can append the file names to sort easier and keep the program simple.

    * do you use a consistent sort?

Yes and no! I might combine two or three different podcasts which will use different naming nomenclature.

    * any other considerations?

The most important is the ability to move a file up or down the list in the order for it to be copied.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 04, 2009, 07:33 PM »

Have you tried my File Bucket application?  Website | DC Forum  It might need a tweak or two but it's probably pretty close to what you want.

-skwire (November 04, 2009, 04:54 PM)

The program appears to be similar to Terracopy. Being able to move and organize the files once copied to temp area is what is missing in both programs.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Copy Files in Defined Order

« on: November 04, 2009, 10:56 AM »

Here is the deal;

I have a cheap but wonderful MP3 player. The device will play the MP3s in the order they were copied onto it. This is great because I only use it to listen to podcasts. I am able to add files to listen to before I am finished with the others and it will play it in the order it was copied to the unit. The unit looks like a USB drive to the computer.

My dilemma;

I download a list of daily podcasts usually weekly. I then copy them onto the player in the order they were recorded. I use Terracopy to copy the files to the player but when files are added to it, they are not in sequential order. Terracopy does not allow you to alter the position of the files once they are added to the program so I have to drag the files one at a time to the program in the order I want them copied.

Is there a program that I can drop my files into, sort them the way I want, and then copy them in the order to my player? Maybe an AHK script?

Thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Sort and group directories by pre-defined sizes

« on: October 18, 2009, 08:01 PM »

Works like a charm!    Does exactly what I wanted and is simple to boot!

Thanks again for the help.

Larry

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Sort and group directories by pre-defined sizes

« on: October 17, 2009, 11:25 AM »

wetsmellydog

Give this a go (attached).  Its no where near finished, but I hope it is on the track of what you are looking for/trying to do.

basically, select your source dir.
Set the size you would like your new folders
select a destination folder

Thats it.

Have a go, and let me have some feedback.

J.

-awopbamboo (October 16, 2009, 04:53 AM)

Thanks! Will give it a spin and let you know how it works. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: simple drawing or floor plan program

« on: October 15, 2009, 09:17 PM »

CadStd lite is extremely simple. It is found here http://www.cadstd.com/lite.html

You might also try drawing in Word. You can make all kind of shapes. Another way to do it is to try is a simple flow chart program. There are a lot of them out there.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Sort and group directories by pre-defined sizes

« on: October 09, 2009, 05:21 PM »

Sure, something like this can be done.  Are you just wanting to go one level deep on the sub directories?

-skwire (October 07, 2009, 11:16 PM)

For now that is all I need. I am sure someone else might want the flexability.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Sort and group directories by pre-defined sizes

« on: October 07, 2009, 06:11 PM »

I am looking for a program that can sort and group sub-directories into pre-defined sizes.
This is like the FILLCD type of program “but” to work only on sub-directories.

Example:

Directory Pics has sub-directories 1, 2, 3,……10

I need them sorted into directories of no larger than 4.5 GB.

The program then outputs;

Directory Pics with sub-directory A with sub-directories 1, 2, 3, sub-directory B with sub-directories 4, 6, 9 and sub-directory C with sub-directories 5, 7, 8, 10.

I have had a lot of friends lately needing Hard Drive recoveries with a lot of pictures in sub-directories . If the pics are not in the same directories or spanned across disks, they start to panic and want to know where the pics went. By keeping the directories together with maximum efficiency for storage size, my friends are not frustrated in trying to find their pics and info.

Thanks

-wetsmellydog (September 23, 2009, 03:16 PM)

Bump! Any ideas?

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Sort and group directories by pre-defined sizes

« on: September 23, 2009, 03:16 PM »

I am looking for a program that can sort and group sub-directories into pre-defined sizes.
This is like the FILLCD type of program “but” to work only on sub-directories.

Example:

Directory Pics has sub-directories 1, 2, 3,……10

I need them sorted into directories of no larger than 4.5 GB.

The program then outputs;

Directory Pics with sub-directory A with sub-directories 1, 2, 3, sub-directory B with sub-directories 4, 6, 9 and sub-directory C with sub-directories 5, 7, 8, 10.

I have had a lot of friends lately needing Hard Drive recoveries with a lot of pictures in sub-directories . If the pics are not in the same directories or spanned across disks, they start to panic and want to know where the pics went. By keeping the directories together with maximum efficiency for storage size, my friends are not frustrated in trying to find their pics and info.

Thanks

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Automatically create a sub folder in a folder on the basis of Album Names

« on: August 24, 2009, 04:37 PM »

If you are looking for more features, there is a great program called Media Monkey.
There is a freeware version and a paid version.

Tags2Folders is great simple program too! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: 1 computer 2 mice-2 pointers-seperate button programming

« on: May 07, 2009, 06:30 PM »

Hey I'm ambidextrous so I'd luv 2 independent mice!
But tracking 2 cursors moving independently wud leave us cross-eyed eventually I guess...
Well a standard mouse has 3 buttons, 5 if you include WheelUp & WheelDown.
If you then get a mouse with the side buttons that AHK treats as XButton1 & 2, that gives you 7 buttons!
AHK then lets you use the & operator to create combination hotkeys such as MButton & WheelDown.
If my math is correct that gives you 49 possible combinations, plus 7 individual keys so you cud program 56 actions on a 5 button mouse.
Of course you can't always use all 56 because using say LButton in a combo hotkey wud affect yr ability to drag items sometimes.
But I think that wud still leave you with more than 20 key combos.

But if you're gonna use 2 mice - I'm assuming 1 in each hand - then yr other hand cud just as easily operate the keyboard 2 press a modifier key so you can do Ctrl+Lbutton or even F1+Wheelup....

-r0bertdenir0 (April 30, 2009, 07:03 PM)

So where is the "simple" Map Your Mouse AHK program?