Mac people inside plz

[Fredless]

First post:

Since I bought my eMac in September 2002, I've had nothing but flawless file sharing between it and my Windows XP pro machine.

My windows machine does not have a CD burner on it, it died and was very old and slow. So for the past year, what I've been doing when I want to burn cd's is open up my shared folder on the finder, and just copy the programs over to the mac and burn them, no problem.

Well about a week ago, when I drag files over (mp3) they just appear really quick on the desktop, then disapear. I used to be able to just double click on them and iTunes would automatically just copy them into my library, I'd drag the files I wanted to make a cd in and voila, burn my cd.

Now it won't do it. I woke up one morning, turned the eMac on to make a CD while I was getting a shower before school...and it hasn't worked since. The system was lagging and getting crowded with junk I've had on here for the past 2.5 years. So I decided, what the ****, I'll just re-install 10.3 and have it format the drive and start all over.

Well I ran the software updates all over, my machine is up to par on everything. I have 10.3.7 running now fine, well I go to make a CD again and the same problem! What the heck is going on? I have no problem sending files from my macintosh over to my windows machine FROM my mac.

I'm stumped. specs: emac superdrive, 800mhz G4, 512mb PC100.

Next post:

Figured something out, I can copy over any files I want from my PC except for MP3s! Even when I try to import them manually through iTunes, I select the shared folder from my PC, and they are greyed out.

What the **** is going on? Is this some new found copy right protection? If so, how the **** do I remove iTunes and get a new MP3 player on there?

New CD burning program as well to burn the MP3's. If there is no way around this, I might as well sell my mac and just buy another CD burner over here, or i'll buy a laptop. This sounds like something microsoft would do...

Any idea whats going on people? Does anyone know of any other MP3 players on macintosh? what about CD burning programs?

I LOVED iTunes up until this point, pissed me off that I re-did that whole system for nothing. Obviously the problem lies within iTunes...

Any help would be appreciated. People on mac-forums aren't responding,maybe they're pissed that I burn MP3 CD's... [img]graemlins/dj.gif[/img]

[TealV6]

Interesting... you said that you changed nothing and it stopped working. That usually does not happen. Most times there is an update that is run to cause issues. And there was an update to iTunes that stopped some sharing, but that was some time back.

I would look more towards it being a permissions issue. Reboot with they system disk. Run disk first aid and you will find the "repair permissions" button. Also run the repain for normal stuff. Reboot. Verify that you have SU rights to your desktop that you have shared out with the Mac. I personally use Root, but that is just me. It let's me do anything from anywhere.

Let me know the results. I'll try to help more if I can.

Steve

[Fredless]

Well thats the thing, its a completely re-done system now, however before I tried to bring MP3's over, I did all of the system updates.

I can swap any file over between the two computers with no problem, EXCEPT MP3 files.

Something in the system is forbidding the transfer of MP3 files from the PC to the Macintosh. Like I mentioned, when I try to import MP3 files manually within iTunes from the shared folder on the PC over the network, they are greyed out indicated it is a forbidden task.

Thanks for the help, but I'm going to have difficult manually overidding it without dummy instructions as I know nothing about the Unix root system and commands.

[TealV6]

Ahhh.. I understand now. I needed some of what you just said in your last post.

You are mounting your PC drive on the Mac. Well, Macs have a problem with NTFS partitions. What you need to do is make a folder on your desktop and try to copy it there first. Make sure the folder has admin access. Should this fail, check the properties of the PC drive when mounted. How is it mounted? SMB? Did you use the AppleShare stuff from MS to share it?

If you have some issues, take some screen shots and email them to me. Things like the error message and info screen of the PC drive.

I think we can get you up and running before the end of the night. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Steve

[4thgenowner]

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[TealV6]

Now i'm remembering why I love this place so much... your all so damn condissending.

Get over it already.. You like pc's, they like macs... respect someones choice instead of being a PITA!

[Fredless]

Originally posted by TealV6:
Ahhh.. I understand now. I needed some of what you just said in your last post.

You are mounting your PC drive on the Mac. Well, Macs have a problem with NTFS partitions. What you need to do is make a folder on your desktop and try to copy it there first. Make sure the folder has admin access. Should this fail, check the properties of the PC drive when mounted. How is it mounted? SMB? Did you use the AppleShare stuff from MS to share it?

If you have some issues, take some screen shots and email them to me. Things like the error message and info screen of the PC drive.

I think we can get you up and running before the end of the night. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Steve

My shared folder does have admin, full write access. But why is it ONLY mp3 files? Here is how I mount it ont he mac

1)open macintosh hd
2)click the network icon on the left
3)chose HOME (the name of the network in my house)
4)it says chose a folder to mount, I can chose from my shared docs, my documents, or shared.
5)choose shared
6)icon created on desktop now, double click it and voila, all files are there
7)click to drag file over (copying in mac) and it won't allow, NO error message, just appears quickly on desktop, then disapeers
8)try manually chosing copy from command menu
9)chose PASTE on desktop, same problem

Thanks for all the help man...and just for the record, I actually use my PC more. I use the mac for its stability when I do school projects, and its space saving design and quietness. I like them both. I'm much better with the PC as I grew up with it, the Mac i'm still a novice with cause I have learned as I have went since 2002.