Anyway to stop

[pjp]

I have two copies of a VERY large mp3 collection stored on two different
external drives (additional backup on dvd's). It pisses me off that
often if I actually look into one of the folders (each cd separate
folder under a root folder) there's often an Album-art.jpg and/or
desktop.ini file created. This causes the two folders to become out of
sync with each other and I'm getting tired of often having to manually
clean up the mess.

Any way to stop this behaviour?

 

[KCB]

I have two copies of a VERY large mp3 collection stored on two different
external drives (additional backup on dvd's). It pisses me off that
often if I actually look into one of the folders (each cd separate
folder under a root folder) there's often an Album-art.jpg and/or
desktop.ini file created. This causes the two folders to become out of
sync with each other and I'm getting tired of often having to manually
clean up the mess.

Any way to stop this behaviour?

Windows Media Player can cause this by automatically downloading info from
the web. More help on this is available (or not) by Googling "Windows Media
Player disable album art". Good luck

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Windows Media Player can cause this by automatically downloading info
from the web. More help on this is available (or not) by Googling
"Windows Media Player disable album art". Good luck

That is true, but I think "desktop.ini" is a separate issue related to
indexing.

 

[John Williamson]

I have two copies of a VERY large mp3 collection stored on two different
external drives (additional backup on dvd's). It pisses me off that
often if I actually look into one of the folders (each cd separate
folder under a root folder) there's often an Album-art.jpg and/or
desktop.ini file created. This causes the two folders to become out of
sync with each other and I'm getting tired of often having to manually
clean up the mess.

Any way to stop this behaviour?

If the files don't cause you any problems in using the folders, then use
something like SynchronX or the MS Synctoy to keep them identical and
ignore the new files. I have a similar problem using an Archos media
player which generates album art thumbnail files on its HD, but as these
are only a few kilobytes each, I just include them in the backup routine.

The desktop.ini files are generated by Windows Explorer each time you
open a folder with non-default view options, if I remember rightly.

 

[Nil]

That is true, but I think "desktop.ini" is a separate issue
related to indexing.

desktop.ini holds the customization settings for a folder. Windows
creates these automatically, and if you delete it, a new one will be
created. I don't know of a way to disable that behavior.

 

[Philip Herlihy]

desktop.ini holds the customization settings for a folder. Windows
creates these automatically, and if you delete it, a new one will be
created. I don't know of a way to disable that behavior.

These files are normally 'hidden' but I'm reconciled to seeing them
replicate in various situations!

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

desktop.ini holds the customization settings for a folder. Windows
creates these automatically, and if you delete it, a new one will be
created. I don't know of a way to disable that behavior.

You are right. AFAIK, it has nothing to do with indexing.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

What are you blabbering about? Now how much disc space could a desktop.ini
and Album art rob you of? I'd say at most it would cost you about 3 cents
maximum. The good news is the price of hard drives is falling so your
worries are over.

You should probably reread pjp's post.