[slinkelist] Image Files

Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:40:50 -0600

Brian,

I understand why the files end up where they are, the browser is handling
the file management. The problem is when one machine is running NT and one
machine is running win 98, the likelihood of having the exact same path to
the images on each machine is slim, let alone the same drive letter, and if
I am trying to access the database of covers from a remote machine the paths
will always be different. I am not asking for cdj to add any new features,
only to set their location of the cover images as a selectable path rather
than defining the exact path of each cover art file. If cdj were to allow
the path to the images to be set in the software, as many other programs do,
then the program would always look for the images in the image directory and
each image would not need a path to it at all, the path would still be
selectable, but all you would need to identify each cover image is the name
of the cover, e.g.. "sting brand new day.jpg" and not
"F:\WINNT\Profiles\DALE\Desktop\CD covers\sting brand new day.jpg" the path
could be constant as in my case would be  F:\WINNT\Profiles\DALE\Desktop\CD
covers and this could be set once, inside the program, and then forgotten.
This solves the portability and allows any machine on the LAN to use the
covers folder. The location or path to the covers folder is not needed in
this scenario. The simple way to do this is by having cdj point to a
directory and then select the individual covers from that directory, not to
specify the path to each individual cover.

Thanks,
Dale

----- Original Message
From: Brian L Hunt <bhunt01@ibm.net>
To: Dale Andren <dale@theandrens.com>; David Aue <aue@nirvis.com>
Cc: Slink-e Users List <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 11:28 PM
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Image Files

> Dale you appear to be extremely confused. They are not in the temporary
> internet files directory as a function of CDJ. They are there as a
function
> of you using files from a live web connection. If you want to keep the
files
> right click the image in the web browser and select save image as or the
> equivalent in your browser. Create a subdirectory in the CDJ directory and
> call it covers or images or something along those lines. Now drag and drop
> from that location. Now when you want to move/copy the set up to another
> machine you can copy the directory you created in total along with the mdb
> file. Assuming that the CDJ directory is on the same drive o both PCs you
> will not need to edit anything.
>
> As David said. The drag does NOT move the file - it merely says create an
> entry for the current location of this image.
>
> As I have stated before, let's not introduce more functions to overcome
RTM
> failure
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > Behalf Of Dale Andren
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 1:25 PM
> > To: David Aue
> > Cc: Slink-e Users List
> > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Image Files
> >
> >
> > David,
> >
> > Is there a way to force cdj to use the same network directory to
> > save these
> > image files. It appears as though they are saved in the temporary
internet
> > files directory. Even if I copy the files from one directory to
> > the other I
> > would still have to change all these directory pointers manually. Is
this
> > something you would consider adding to cdj in the future. It could be as
> > easy as an autocopy image to directory x command.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dale
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Aue <aue@nirvis.com>
> > To: Dale Andren <dale@theandrens.com>
> > Cc: Slink-e Users List <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 2:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Image Files
> >
> >
> > > When you drag and drop an image to CDJ it just stores the path to the
> > image
> > > file.  If you want the images to appear on another computer
> > then you must
> > > have the image files in the same path on both computers.
> > >
> > > David Aue
> > > Nirvis Systems
> > >
> > > At 12:17 PM 10/30/99 , Dale Andren wrote:
> > > >Hi List,
> > > >
> > > >I have been dragging and dropping cover images from cdnow to cdj and
am
> > > >having a problem. If I open cdj on another computer and use the
> > library.mdb
> > > >file as my cd library, where are the image files that go with that
> > library
> > > >file located. My problem is that although cdj shows an image being
> > > >associated with a CD, the image only appears on the computer that I
did
> > the
> > > >drag and drop from. Are the cover images stored somewhere
> > else. The only
> > > >reason I am doing this is its way easier to do the drag and
> > drop sequence
> > > >400 times on a big monitor and I run cdj from a laptop normally. I am
> > only
> > > >copying library.mdb from one machine to the other.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks in advance,
> > > >Dale
> > > >
> > > >
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