Billy wrote:
"philicorda" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:32:55 -0400, lowgen36 wrote:
Only if they have permission to do so.
You could create another user on the machine, who has all your mp3s in
their /home directory with read only permissions. Then your normal
everyday login can read those files without fear of altering them.
If the mp3 player program does try to write to file, you should be able
to make the attempt turn up in the system logs, so you can be sure that
the program is the problem.
It does sound more like a corrupted file system to me though, as others
have already pointed out.
By a corrupted file system do you mean the specific mp3 file affected
remains undamaged?
Yes and no. The data may well be there, but the information the system
uses to find the various bits of it may be corrupt.
If you want to know more, google for FAT filesystem or NTFS filesystem
according to what your computer uses. Wikipedia has a pretty good
general explanation of how the filesystem on a hard drive works. Have a
look he-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
There's a bit a little way down about file systems on PCs.
Then follow the links at the bottom of the article to why filesystems
sometimes break, & what can be done to fix them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_fragmentation
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Tciao for Now!
John.