On 2/28/18 7:55 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ken Springer" wrote

| This isn't for me, for a guy that's mostly computer illiterate, but
| wants to put his CD collection on a hard drive.
|

Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.

Actually, it is. G

This is something I would never do for me. I have CDs, but I don't care
if they are ripped to my HD.

For whatever reason, he bought a Pono Music "box". It was backed by
Neil Young, and appears to be defunct. As a result, I've not been able
to find any software for it online. It seems you can buy the original
software, but apparently it didn't always work.

He wanted to digitize his entire CD collection, put the files on the
Pono and an external HD. But he had no clue that the Pono he bought can
only hold 60 GB of data.

The man is very knowledgeable, but he seems to have a mental block, he
says he can't learn. He's dyslexic, and I suspect he was told all the
"You're stupid" kind of stuff when he was growing up, since dyslexia
wasn't that well understood.

But he can learn, he just has to do it slow, and in his own way. I've
been pushing him, and he's "getting it", at least the things associated
with just getting the discs ripped.

He had a Vista laptop, but left it with someone somewhere to do
something with it, I'm not sure what that was, but now can't even get a
response from this guy.

So I gave him options of what to buy, and as I expected, bought the
cheapest option. I wanted him to buy new, but that didn't fly.

So, I'm fixing the things wrong with the refurb laptop he bought.
Missing drivers, HP Connection Manager turned off, etc. Installing
software, and teaching him how to rip the CDs with Media Player. And,
prefiguring the rippng process so it essentially becomes a "monkey see
monkey do" process.

Originally, ripping music was all the computer was going to be used for.
But we've already added Gmail, via a shortcut, and a basic free office
suite.

And I got him to add internet service to his house.

As he settles in with it, I'm sure there will be more that he'll ask
about. I'm hoping he begins to browse the web for the solutions he
wants. At some point, I'm going to push him to take some Windows 7
basic classes online.

The only part of the "system" as he wants it that I haven't done, is
getting 2 Windows Explorer windows to
open where he would like them.

I think he's at the point now where he has to get comfortable with what
has been done, before going any further with anything additional such as
scripting. If that were to go belly up, I don't think he would be able
to handle it at this point. Maybe, some time in the future.

snip

I snipped your script, thanks for it. ATM, all my printers are down,
but a new one is on the way. Then I'll print your script, and a couple
others from this thread, for possible later use.

--
Ken
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and it's gone!"