Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

I'm like 95% certain that it should be okay

oh yeah well i'm like 97% or 98% certain

YAAAAAAY NOW IT SEES THE HD AS HAVING 931 GB CAPACITY. I have no idea why 1 TB just turned into 931 GB but whatever, I don't need HALF of that anyway.

I am 100% certain, but I am a PC user, so that might just be like 97% for Macs

Okay uh now how do I put things in it?

Because the router settings page recognizes it but doesn't tell me how to drop files in, ie I don't see a button or link or anything. And it doesn't show up in my Finder tree anywhere as a location.

Unplug the drive from the router and replug it to the MBA and transfer file sthat way

But my computer won't recognize it anymore now that's it's formatted for Windows, I would have thought? I'll try, hang on....

Dumping the HD folder back on.

The thing about FAT32 is now it will be recognized by EVERYTHING :D

your new shelving system will fit in any apartment!

I think this is where I bow out though, you should probably follow the instructions on "how to set up your router as a file server" on page 65 here http://www.tp-link.com/resources/document/TL-WDR3600_V1_User_Guide.pdf

But IDK how to really set it up in OSX Finder, Stevie D you probably do?

i am mac-dumb but i will see what i can do

I googled and found this:

Mac computers don't self-discover a USB file share on the router. I emailed TP-Link and got an answer 6 hours later. (Finder...Go...Connect to Server...smb:192.168.0.1/{volume name})

io you should rename it something simple and lowercase and one word after copying the files back to it

can you like Favorite it so it always shows up?

I did that Go > Connect to server thing this morning and it worked to an extent--it still couldn't fully see the thing bc of the formatting, I guess.

I did it, IT WORKED! YOU DID IT!

I can read and write to the HD now, wait wait I'm about to tell iTunes to look there for the music library, that's the final test.

So this...isn't working. I changed the Prefs to tell iTunes to look on the HD for the music library but it's making me locate every single track individually. I even told it, "YES, please use this location to find other missing files" but it does no good.

Absolutely every action, even just scrolling, gets the color wheel and a long lag time.

I think it is an issue of iTunes being shitty

Yeah I have a feeling that won't work

This was the whole whole reason for buying this damn router in the 1st place and spending all day working on the set-up. Now I'm tired and just sad.

And now my HD is formatted wrong and I still haven't solved the music problem.

Maybe "Digital Media Expert" Joey can show you how? IDK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdnomvTPZg

ars is pretty technical but has good guides:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/how-to-offload-your-itunes-library-to-a-nas/

Apparently even the nerdiest of the nerds can't agree on what best practices are w/r/t to an itunes library on the network http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/26/how-to-move-your-itunes-library-to-a-nas/

io what's your ultimate goal in moving the iTunes to a network drive? Is it cause you want to free up the USB port?

Yes I need one for my speakers and another for my iphone, which means if I want to make a playlist and then move it to my phone I have to unplug the speakers so I can't watch anything or listen to anything while I'm working. It's silly to be this limited but there you are, only 2 ports.

You can buy a USB hub

Also so I can access it when I'm not at a desk with the HD plugged in.

Ah, a usb hub wouldn't be practical for that

A hub is better than nothing, I guess. I just wanted the freedom to use my files in a way that was less hassle.

Is iTunes OK with NAS things then? It's tempting

I think if I were to try I'd only try w/ an Airport Extreme

this has been a night mare for me and I have been able to reinstall windows 8 but nothing works long I bought a dell laptop inspearon 15 3520 and 8.1 crashes my system every time what really sucks is there is no support for win 8 and im constantly herrashed to update to 8.1 win 8 and this lap top don't work and 8.1 is even worse deadly even dell has in one year replaced the mother board 3 times the hard drive twice and given me 4 product keys but I've yet to get 2 continues weeks of use to date and both dell and Microsoft just give me the run around I have had thins like all of my web accounts stuck in a continues log in incorrect password , reset password , trust this pc , incorrect password , reset password this was for two weeks my bank account school account google accounts and msn 12 different accounts and no help or support locked out for two weeks before after sending email to every uppermanegment person email address I could find with the majority returned undeliverable un a resulutsion upper management person from x box contacted me it took her two days to free up my accounts but she did but I was never told what happened this is just one of countless problems and service requests with most never resolved and cases closed without so much as a how do you do I find it insulting dissrespectfull and unprofessinle how I've ben held hostage by boyh dell and Microsoft and there what is clearly no concern what I've ben thru and both of them are always trying to get me to pay for tech support and I have only to still not have a working system office 365 witch I payed for is another bad apple and again no support because I run win 8 and there is no support or when I do get thru to chat or tech calling me back I get passed around disconnected and just plain not helped and know for some reson because on my last reinstall of win 8 due to system crash from foolishly installing 8.1 my account that I perchaced office under and several apps from store is not accessible says this account does not exsist yet office account clearly says my current account is getting office from the account I purchaced it with or says this is being shraed from that account but I cant access it because it says it does not exsist and I cant create a new account in the same name bebecause it says that account already exsists but they cant have it both ways and I have lost access to all apps I purchace at msn store under that account and guess what they claim I made it a alias that I deleated it and I have to wait until 6/5/14 to re make it a alias unactspetible and even worse every time I open my mail accout I get a pop up that says to update the account but it does not exsist when I try and of course the never ending searh for support only brings the your running 8 and need to update to 8.1 and every 5th or 6th time I just close the pop up im forced to go to the store I can not close pop up with out doing so its a night mare I could go on for a cupple hours could provid anyone who want a long list of service tag numbers that msn really gave me the oky doec on and closed claim they could not contack me ah that's the ones I forwarded to my gmail because all the rest and the ones I did forward have disappeared and I cant stand the fact I have no choice that regrardlees of settings what little control I should have it constantly gotten aound but only for tracking or harassing me like my printer maker software that I have checked and checked do not allow updates be cause it locks my printer in a non useable non resetible mode because I wont buy my ink from them at litterly 1000% more the cost than ink im useingi get ten cartrigdes for lees than they want me to pay for one and no matter what ive done inclueding having Microsoft techs in stall just the drivers nothing else it somehow gets around my seeting to stop anything from being installed it does and if I don't check every time I power up itlocks my printer up of course msn says its not possible and Epson say its the chip on the ink but I know for a fact its not cause every time its epsons software that says your not usu=eing genuine ink and with in seconds locks it up every time no exceptions anyways im just getting agitated now but Microsoft sucks and they now this **** don't work unless I one pay for support and let it do what it wants track what it want and see what it wants and use what it wants what ever happened to serveing the custermer needs all you get is what it wants your needs to be and nobody seems to mind we are quickly approaching the age of no chice and brian dead people

Maybe your computer has decided to block you from the internet until you learn to use periods and carriage returns?

stop herrashing me

sorry, couldn't resest

So here's a weird one: the pitch of audio on my computer will suddenly drop for a split second and then come up, like a tape that got stretched out or if you put your finger on an LP and then let go. Happens with mp3s, CDs, DVDs. Never encountered this before.

Cannot connect to the internet on my desktop. All other devices fine. Problem happens with both wireless and ethernet connection. Troubleshooter either says unable to diagnose, or 'Your computer appears to be correctly configured but the device or resource (DNS server) is not responding. Have tried obtaining dns server automatically, and using google's dns, for both ipv4 and ipv6. Have done ipconfig /flushdns, /registerdns, /release, /renew. Have tried various other suggested fixes - turning off ipv6, checking power management hasn't turned off network adaptor, updating drivers, deleting and reinstalling network adaptor. Halp! Anyone? Anyone?

cripes,I might be reinstalling the OS at that point. First try a live CD or USB of some free Linux distribution? Boot up in that and see if you're online

Yeah that's a good next step, I guess that might indicate if it's OS or hardware related. Thx!

i need to use a windows program to update the firmware on a gadget over USB. i have macs. how do i do this?

virtualbox, right? can that see the host machine's USB bus? and is there an easy way to get an ultra minimal windows image to run in virtualbox. isn't windows basically free to try these days? i haven't used windows for 20 years.

My computer just completely conked out on me as I was watching a youtube video on how to play the guitar part from Solsbury Hill. Admittedly I shouldn't have been doing this as I have to teach in an hour and a half and I don't play the guitar, but still, I wouldn't have expected it to break my computer. Dang it.

I must in that case consider it good fortune that I got away with watching the video for Games Without Frontiers the other day.

xp Have you tried shocking the monkey?

Or taking a sledgehammer to it?

Don't give up...

Sorry if kidding around seems insensitve. Sudden conking out can be distressing or at least inconvenient.

No, it's fine. I mean, I'm not looking forward to having to spend a bunch of money getting it fixed, but I have a separate work computer, plus an older personal computer that still works okay, so I'm not hugely inconvenienced. Mostly I posted bc I thought it was funny.

I grieve for you