knicknack;3469546 Wrote:
> I'm having a heck of a time trying to organize my music ever since I got
> a
> vista computer. I have an external hard drive with a lot of music on
> it, and
> also have been putting new music on it. When I try to change the
> track
> information (whether through explorer, winamp, or itunes) it won't let
> me do
> it on all files.
>
> For example:
>
> I have a folder containing an entire album, which I got from the same
> source. I want to make sure all the track info is correct before I put
> it
> into winamp. I open explorer, and see that not all the track numbers
> are
> there. So, I start putting them in. Every once in a while, I'll edit
> the
> track number (or artist, or genre, or anything at all) and vista throws
> an
> error:
>
> "An error occurred when writing the property '#' to the file
> 'filename'."
>
> (where property is any property and filename is the name of the file)
>
> I've checked into ownership - i changed the ownership of the external
> drive
> to the administrator group. I've looked into read only - i have access
> to
> full permissions on the files and folders. It reads as a winamp media
> file,
> and looks the same as the others that I can edit. When I look at the
> security on the folders, sometimes 'read only' is shaded in in blue, so
> I
> have unchecked that and applied it to everything in the folders and
> subfolders just to make sure everything is readable. However, when I
> do
> that, it still ends up blue the next time I look at it. Since blue
> means
> absolutely nothing to me, I don't know what this means at all, but...
>
> So, I own everything in the directory, it should be readable and
> writable,
> and I have permissions to everything.
>
> So what on EARTH is going on? It's very very very very annoying.

Welcome to Windows Vista! This is one of about two dozen insane issues
you'll find. Sometimes I can easily change multiple track attributes,
other times, Vista won't let me change ID3 tag fields. Other times, it
lets me change them but the changes don't. None of the suggestions here
make any sense - it has nothing to do with your external hard drive,
read only file attributes (which you can change if you insist but they
will never, ever stay how you want them), UAC, or anything else. I've
had the problem with multiple reformats, 32 bit and 64 bit, with UAC on
and off, and on multiple physical computers. It's just a pure crap
shoot.


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