Re: [Itms-backup-beta-testing] Testing Version 0.7

[Mario D. <mar...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 08:38  PM, Keith Cappello wrote:

> Panther 10.3.4   - Dual 2 GHz 1GB RAM 160GB SATA drive

Wow! Santa came to somebody's house this year -- show off! ;-)

> I also had an apple script that takes what song I am listening to and 
> makes it my iChat status.
> http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/
> Just after I started up the iTMSBackup my whole machine locked up.  
> Did not even get the crash screen saying I needed to reboot.   Just 
> had to power down and start over again.

Okay, now in all seriousness, is the crash repeatable? I have had an 
intermittent crash (very infrequent though, and not repeatable) when 
running the app via ProjectBuilder, mainly when I push the GUI's 
buttons as fast as I can, without waiting for the app. I've never had 
it happen with the deployed application.

If your crash isn't repeatable, we are not going to be able to worry 
about it.

> One question I have is, is there a problem if an apple script like 
> that is working where it makes calls to iTunes, will it interfere with 
> the app?

I don't think so. The application doesn't interact with iTunes 
directly; it only uses the XML file iTunes generates. I believe the 
only time iTunes touches the XML file is when it's quitting, and 
perhaps only if iTunes' database has changed.

> I have purchased new songs since then, and as far as i could tell by 
> the speed of the backup it only did an incremental backup of my new 
> songs.

Right! It performs incremental backups.

> Is there anything I can do to cause any errors?

I wrote a document "Guide to beta testers" that can be accessed from 
the project page's "Docs" link. There are several tests in there that 
will generate errors.

> On the icon.  Looks cool.   One suggestion if any would be to add the 
> same like little lock symbol on it, just like the one that appears on 
> the m4p files only a little bigger.

I think that's a great idea, but one of the guys on the list has 
offered to tweak the icon, and I'm willing to leave any improvements in 
his capable hands.

Thanks, Keith!

Mario


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