Re: how to move location of default database???? plz!

ya, i know about system drive space! that's the thing.

fine, cool about the database, it probably amounts to how much tagging one
has withthe files, maybe. maybe the guy with 35 megs and 12000 songs has
less metadata. all my media files are bought, and are fully tagged.

- as i said - i had 750meg free about a month ago. i keep my system
STRIPPED DOWN, a la, CLEAN. there's not much left to clean.

all my apps go on dedicated drive, all my data on a third - my system stays
pretty still.

i install WMP11 - boom - WHY WHY WHY *MUST* it go on system drive? STUPID.
it should be able to be installed anywhere, it's a MEDIA PLAYER APP, not the
kernel. what YEAR IS IT>?? tight product embedding still in xp? why? vista
is out. no need to coerce stickiness to WMP11. damn!

again - like i said - after installing WMP11, and then microsoft blasting
about 40 security updates FOR A PRODUCT I DON'T EVEN HAVE (OFFICE!!!) i
found myself suddenly out of space. when my system was already STRIPPED
DOWN, ya know? ALREADY CLEAN.

does not leave too many things to remove now, thus my visit to this forum
(which, thankfully you guys are here - plz, i'm just FRUSTRATED at this
point - but i support you guyz)

my system was like a rock -> up till now.

and now i can't even ROLL back the installs, because i had ALREADY CLEANED
THE RESTORE POINTS AND UNINSTALL FILES, not realizing i didn't need the
updates - i woulda rolled them all back. why would i even suspect MS would
push OFFICE security updates when i don't even have office? so i screwed
myself really.

so yeah, i am now down to moving the WMP db, rather than untangle the NEST
of updates i got . it's a shame, my system has been so solid for a LONG TIME

i still stick to what i say - a DB system which has no upper size
constraint should be allowed to be relocated AS A MATTER OF DESIGN, it makes
no sense not to, and is inherently not future-thinking.

anyway - thanks again for the advice, i appreciate it. gotta pick up and
get back into it i guess. i gotta find 400 megs - there goes solitaire!

tre


"Dale" wrote:

I don't know that it isn't optimized at all. I was speculating about
reasons that mine might have been hundreds of MB large at one time. Pure
speculation; that's all.

You really need to get a larger drive. No recent version of Windows does
well when you have less than about 50MB to 100MB of free space. While
you're not that low, you don't even want to experience how sluggish Windows
gets if you get there.

Common things like Windows Update, Temporary Internet Files, temp files for
applications, etc. can eat up a few hundred or even a gig without you even
realizing it.

Dale

"trehug" <trehug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:40216A0A-F4DD-48F3-9D0A-9E4F8450E7B4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi
whenever i have some database file that may *expand* to an unknown size,
like my email db or mp11's db - i want it on a different drive than my
system.
my swapfile is off my system drive too, and i my system is really steady.

the system drive had about 750mg free till last week, something happened,
i
changed to mp11 about a month ago, i installed ms-publisher temporarily...
next thing ya know i get a slew of "office" auto updates, and another
slew
of security updates, literally dozens - my system drive is down to 200.

so i go cleaning up, u know -> remove restore points and uninstall-files -
BEFORE realizing that the updates were for ms-office- and i end up now,
not
being able to back out those updates, and i don't even have office.

so yeah, i'm now clamming around to find some space on my drive. i
already
had it pretty stripped down that's the problem.

...might have to go back to 10

i have a question for you then - if as stated above is true, and the mp11
database is not very well optimized - then why not? i thought - surely
the
database would be tweaked, as one of the PRIMARY customer experience
factors
(speedwise)-
what's up with that?

thanks for the registry tip i'm in for that - need to watch that space.
/trevor



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


You can also save lots of space:
* Clear out the %temp% folder
* turn off hibernation and get rid of c:\hiberfil.sys

Beyond that, I totally agree. More disk space makes life better. 500GB
sounds like a nice good baseline for any system. ;-)

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
--

"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mine was 350 MB last I looked for 10,000 tracks. I think it is because
of
tracks being added and deleted over time and the data being remembered
or
perhaps the database does not resize and reuse space well.

One question we both neglected is how the OP thinks that 200 MB is
going
to solve his out of space problem. These days, if I don't have 10+ GB
of
free space on a drive, I start getting nervous. He really should be
looking elsewhere to recover more space or looking for a larger drive.


Dale

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:htvut25ljv1m8v2o539ta5pco84jq3a5ih@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:26:05 -0800, trehug
<trehug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi - i'm running out of spa-a-a-ce!

mp11 on xp.
can i change the location of my:
LocalSettings/Application Data/Microsoft/MediaPlayer
folder?

it's like over 200mb - i want to put it on another drive - anyone
help?
thanks /trev


I can't think of a way to get round your problem of only having 200MB
free on the windows drive. However I'm curious how your library got
this big ? I've got 12000 MP3's here which makes a DB of about 35 meg.

Approximately how many media files do you have that requires 6x that ?

Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs






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