On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:29:32 +1000, Lurker@Large.org wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 04:01:14 GMT, "Straight Man"
><straight.man@straight.org> wrote:
>
>Hi Straightman,
>
>Thank you for this - it wasn't necessary because I tend to operate on
>the basis that things are the way they are because they are useful to
>someone being that way. And I think you appreciate that my post was of
>an "informational" variety to let some downloaders, who might be
>frustrated, know why they were not having success with the material
>you have posted. After a couple of tries with your recent offerings my
>expectation would be that they simply disregard your posts, or worse,
>consign your material to the trash bin - and I'm kind of guessing this
>isn't what you would prefer to see happen.
>
>>My system includes the major actors in a film in the film's filename.
>>Sometimes I add actors of interest (and in rare instances, the Director).
>>The reason is, if I'm looking for films with a certain actor, it's easy to
>>filter just those films in my database.
>
>Yes, I use a similar technique - but using an XL database which also
>allows for easy sorting - currently my media directory occupies about
>9TB of a RAID array on an NAS server that is fed by a UPS. I have
>spent a lot of time organising this and I do not wan't a sudden power
>outage to give me problems with losses and corrupt files.
>
>>
>>There is a lot of work involved in uploading a file. You have to make rar
>>files, par files, make a Sample (which is time-consuming and doesn't always
>>come out with a given technique), make an nfo file, and finally, post it.
>>What you are asking me to do is re-name my file first (to make it shorter),
>>thus adding even another step.
>
>I know and I applaud your dedication. It is a pity that some
>downloaders may be having trouble that is not that easy to overcome if
>they are using Agent 8 - see later.
>
>>
>>In addition, I don't want to have to start counting how many characters are
>>in a filename. That would be still another step, and a long one at that. An
>>alternative is I could just include the film's title and year. But people
>>may not be familiar with a given movie. They wouldn't know whether to get it
>>or not. Back to our example, if I titled the movie just "Rear Window
>>(1954)," would that be as informative to people who weren't familiar with
>>the movie, as if they saw it was a Hitchcock movie with James Stewart, Grace
>>Kelly, et al.?
>
>I have only requested a minor change if it convenient to do so. I
>understand why you prefer not to. But might I make a suggestion? Do
>not work on the original you have created make a copy and use this for
>generating your post - then the alteration is simply a highlight, copy
>(if you want to include this information in the .nfo or a.txt file)
>and delete the file name part after the date, no counting, no
>alteration to your original and no replacement of what you have
>removed. Actually this is good practise as it avoids any corruption of
>the original that might result from things like power outages.It is
>even better if it is done in a directory that is located on an HDD
>that does not contain you media library.
>
>I tend to look for Title, date, video format and codec, Audio format
>and codec plus source information as this data quickly determines if I
>am going to bother looking for more detailed information about the
>film (Actors, Directors, genre, plot, etc) with a web search.
>
>>I appreciate what you're saying. I really do. I used to use Forte Agent, and
>>remember having similar issues. I don't want to get into a Newsreader
>>discussion here, but I thought Forte Agent was a good newsreader, and in
>>some respects, was better than the newsreader I currently use.
>
>Agent 8 is very useful because of its automatic decoding capability,
>it saves a lot of assembly work that was previously necessary. This
>facility has, however, created a "glitch" problem for file name types
>like the ones you prefer.
>
>You might care to know that an alteration tho a much shorter parth
>length (such as C:\ would not have solved the problem for files that
>are more than about 120 characters (Navarone was about 132). That
>requires diving into the folder properties dialogue and making some
>changes to the default conditions that are not very straightforward.
>
>>I will try to shorten some titles, but you probably will see a difference in
>>just a few movies. Two examples in what you may have seen a difference in,
>>from what I've posted, are "The Guns Of Navarone" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,
>>Mad World." Can't promise much. I really don't want to start playing with
>>file names, renaming files, and then worrying about renaming them back.
>
>Please do not do this purely on my account (I am happy to use a
>work-around for anything I really want that you post), but be aware
>that if you do you may reach a greater number of downloaders.
>
>Cheers
>
>L@L
>
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Straightman always posts an NZB. If you want what he posts, ignore the actual
files posted and just download the NZB. Works fine for me.
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