Hi craig1410, setting the spotlight comment is pretty simple process. The only thing I think of is
perhaps there is permissions issue, but it would seem if you're able to write to the disk, you should also be able to change the comment. I am at a loss.
There are advantages to using the internal drive for ripping and encoding, I've found that throughput and read/write is usually faster. You can try the free AJA System Test to compare the speed:
http://www.aja.com/products/software/
Good luck! mac.jedi
Hi,
I'll give it another try on my machine in a moment and let you know if it works now. I know there can be issues with label colours on networked (AFP) drives where the change in label colour is not immediately shown but if you add or remove a file from the folder any label colour changes suddenly get refreshed. I just wondered if something similar was happening on the firewire drive.
Thanks for the pointer to AJA System Test. I ran it and found the following:
My Book FW800: Read 72.7 MB/s, Write 61.4 MB/s
Internal Drive: Read 67.8 MB/s, Write 67.3 MB/s
Time Capsule (GBit Ethernet): Read 26.3 MB/s, Write 10.2 MB/s
As you can see, my FW800 drive is a bit faster at reading but a bit slower at writing compared to the internal drive. My Time Capsule is considerably slower which is no surprise really.
I would prefer for the rip to go from DVD to Internal and then the encode from Internal to External because that is where I intend to store my movies anyway as my internal drive is only 320GB and 70GB of that is assigned to boot camp. I then make a second copy onto my Time Capsule so that movies can be watched anywhere in the house and it acts as a backup as well.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks again,
Craig.