[quantal] no audio with k9copy

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/01/13 07:56, D. R. Evans wrote:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 12/28/2012 08:58 AM :
>
>> Anyway, this is pretty high on my priority list: it just turned out that it
>> wasn't the simple 15-minute exercise I expected it to be. I *will* add to this
>> thread when I've spent more time on the issue.
>>
> So here is the story.
>
> Two computers:
>    #1: 32-bit laptop
>    #2: 64-bit desktop
> Both machines running quantal.
>
> Before I started on this, both machines behaved exactly the same way: both
> could copy DVDs, but the audio was absent on the resultant copy. I tried
> everything I could think of to correct the problem; nothing worked.
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> As is so frequently the case, I'm glad I had the foresight to keep one machine
> on Kubuntu 8.04 (the last KDE3 release). Every time I think of "upgrading" it
> to the current release, something like this happens to impress on me that I
> really shouldn't do that if I want to have one rock-solid machine on which
> Things Just Work.
>
>    Doc

I just hope that you didn't keep your old home directory intact when you 
did your upgrade :-( . Most people do and this only leads to more tears 
than happiness :-( .

Always do a NEW, CLEAN install and the only parts you should keep from 
your old installation are your DOCUMENTS folder (correspondence etc), 
your MUSIC folder (if any music in it), your .mozilla and .thunderbird 
folders (containing your mail and Firefox settings), and any other 
folder containing data which you simply cannot lose (eg, photos, Downloads).

Do NOT keep config files for any apps you may have - let the new 
installation create them to suit the new versions of the apps! [##]

I note that you mention that you are working with a 32- and a 64-bit 
computers. The config file I sent you was for a 64-bit computer (see my 
signature line below) so I don't know if it would apply to a 32-bit 
computer.

A hint re when you hit hassles: run the app from a command line in a 
terminal and you should see the error messages generated as to why the 
app may not be running correctly.

[##] It would be most beneficial if one has a second HDD installed 
because you can then put all these 'essential' folders - .mozilla, 
.thunderbird, Documents, Music, Downloads, whatever - on this second HDD 
and in your home directory (~/) create symlinks pointing to those 
folders. When you do a new, clean install these folders on your 2nd HDD 
are untouched and all you need to do is to recreate the symlinks in your 
fresh, new home (~/) directory.

I have a folder I called Symed on the 2nd drive and all these folders I 
just mentioned are within it; in my home directory I have symlinks 
pointing to /<2nd_HDD>/Symed/Downloads[and so on]. If I lose my system 
HDD I have all the essentials sitting on the 2nd drive, and all I do is 
do a backup of Symed to be on the safe side.

BC

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