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Thread #111676   Message #2358050
Posted By: JohnInKansas
05-Jun-08 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Media virus?
Subject: RE: Tech: Media virus?
It has been quite common for printers and cameras to come with software that you are urged to install, but for which there is NO INFORMATION prior to installation about what the software is going to do to for you. Many of these programs arbitrarily move all your photos to new folders they create, relable them according to their own "classification schemes" and otherwise f**k up what you've had organized to your own complete satisfaction.

I have learned (from bitter experience) to avoid anything that either a camera maker of "photo printer" maker says is "good for me."

I don't "do audio" so can't comment from experience; but the reviews of some of the commonly available programs imply that they may "do everything that's good for you" in similar ways. While I don't have any reason to believe that either of the programs named here are in that category, I would not be surprised to hear of "disappearing files" with a number of nominally similar "organizers" I've seen reviewed, and similar functions seem to be integral to some of the download site programs(?).

Some of what is offered might actually be helpful, if you knew what it was doing or was going to do; but I guess I'm just to old-fashioned to "take it on faith" without some idea of how it works - in advance of using it.

John