I HATE APPLE

really hating this nonsense. the upgrade to ios 5 destroying any semblance of alphabetical organisation of tracks, artists and albums.

euler: it was you complaining about no "save as", right? that's back in 10.8. option click the file menu and it's there.

i have bought a shiny new macbook

it is terrifying and confusing me

"migration assistant" is a crock of shit

AAARGHHHH

I SPENT TWO HOURS REIMPORTING ALL MY MUSIC INTO ITUNES

AND THE FUCKING THING COPIED ALL THE FILES TO MY COMPUTER HD FROM MY EXTERNAL HD

WHY

WHY

WHYYYYYYYYYY WOULD YOU DO THAT

i just want to get everything how it was on my old mac

why is this going to take me 5 million hours

why don't i fucking understand anything about this machine

make an appointment in the apple store. they will show you how to migrate things the way you want to (which is apparently not the default way)

AAARGHHHH

http://i.imgur.com/7vjJd.png

i just moved everything to the external hd and then moved it on to the new macbook. doing things manually is always, always, always easier.

fucking itunes fucking me around though! it's automatically created about a million separate playlists for each album without me telling it to and i can't delete them without going through them individually. WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

and why is google chrome underlining all my "spelling errors" and why can't i get it to stop doing this FUCK OFF

xp why is that the default setting though? how many fucking things do i have to think of before doing something which should be incredibly simple?

that's the kind of shit that makes me terrified of doing ANYTHING on any computers

doing things manually is always, always, always easier.

lol nope

they decided that most people want to put their music on their computer, not an external drive. so that's how it's set up by default. you unticked that box on your old mac. you didn't take the option to automatically migrate because i don't know why, so you needed to untick it on the new mac.

apple wants people to feel like itunes is completely self-contained or something

i did take the option to automatically migrate but it didn't DO ANYTHING, and on my old mac it didn't give me the option to migrate stuff TO another mac, only from

so i did it manually because it was easier LIKE IT ALWAYS IS

ugh

oh my god why is it automatically playing everything as i try to import them again?????????

why is it automatically creating playlists again???????? I TOLD IT NOT TO DO THIS I UNTICKED THE FUCKING BOX YOU CUNT

I CAN'T COPE WITH THIS MACHINE

http://i.imgur.com/k2tSL.png

lmao this is my favorite part of these threads

haha

I wish they would just make a good copycat of itunes for Ubuntu

lex is your computer in the kitchen

i don't find it funny >>>>>>>>>>:''''(

i actually did start to set it up in the kitchen but moved to my bedroom because i thought having the two macbooks near each other would help w/r/t migrating files

it didn't

i put them down facing each other on the bed and everything

(is that how bluetooth or firewire or whatever it's called works?)

you make it sound like they were making out

maybe they didnt like each other?

i don't like THEM

does it not take an age to migrate all those GBs wirelessly

thanks caek! it was me fuming about the loss of "save as". should have 10.8 as soon as apple sends me my "up to date" code for my lovely new retina mbp

somethings it helps to rotate the computers so they're not facing each other

Some people say it helps if you put "migrating pairs" of Macs under some kind of pyramid. One made out of branches will probably be fine.

transubstantiation

er shit i meant transmigration

Yes, let's not confuse Lex.

seriously though sometimes when i get the spinning beach ball i lay hands on my mbp and try to send healing vibrations

That hasn't worked since 10.4, you idiot.

Some people say it helps if you put "migrating pairs" of Macs under some kind of pyramid. One made out of branches will probably be fine.

i am quite proud of myself for seeing through these LIES. i didn't know that about rotating them away from each other though

seriously though sometimes when i get the spinning beach ball i lay hands on my mbp and try to send healing vibrations

what is a mbp?!!! i HATE the spinning beach ball so much

after a while i basically just hit my screen whenever the beach ball flashed up

I think I've discovered your problem

pebcak?

love it

what is a mbp?!!!

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

trying to reinstall os x on an ibook g4 recently i got some randomly spewed code which ended in a note reading something like 'if consumer sees this, panic'

Awesome

After my 4-yr-old ruined its fifth charger in a year's time, finally decided that it was probably the dc-in board's fault. Hadn't bothered w/fixing it even though it looked like a fire trap, plus ifixit listed it as a "difficult" home repair job. Took it to an Apple store just to double check the component parts, but somehow it ended up being just as cheap for them to do everything. Hate Apple a little less today-- was not looking forward to replacing it myself and breaking my lil MB in the process.

And apologies to Lex-- that iTunes box is ticked for people like me. A few years ago I set aside a day where I normalized the artist/album/compilation metadata for my whole music library; since then, whenever I dl something new, I immediately do the metadata editing and, once a month, move all the new stuff over to my external. So basically, if you do a ton of metadata tagging -- and if you're using iTunes, I don't know why you wouldn't, otherwise there are more lightweight media players to use -- you leave that box ticked.

Then again I'm one of the few people who has almost always loved iTunes so idk, there's a strong possibility I'm a lowest-common-denominator user who fuck it up for everyone else.

man, they don't make robot babies like they used to