Towards

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I did get to run my fixes yesterday and it worked and the whole thing ran a little under five hours, about four hours and forty minutes. It didn't run the part that deletes the files first though as they were already deleted from previous test attempts and currently that process takes about twenty minutes. I've tried things to speed that up but the parallel processing doesn't really make a difference for that part. Maybe if I split it up based on drive... I don't know. I have other ideas on maybe how I can speed things up by more dynamically changing the batch size starting off bigger, really big, and shrinking as the drive fills and then I'd be able to keep it doing batches for more of it and the batches in the beginning would be even more efficient. I don't know how much of a difference this would make, but even if I managed to shave off thirty minutes (not sure that's possible, but probably worth a try!) that'd be nice. I mean, if I recall, just copying that much data in windows by drag/drop would take a good long time. So add the mp3 conversion and some intelligence on how it copies automatically and what I've got's not too bad. The mp3 player itself was acting a little funny with its database afterwords, pretty much counting like twice as many songs as that got loaded on it. I don't know what's up with that. Whatever. At night last night I watched Miller's Crossing and it was good. That's about it.