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Post #1220694

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pittrek
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Despecialised help required for IT idiot
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Date created
28-Jun-2018, 2:42 AM

Ed1973 said:

Well, part of the problem is I don’t really know how my computer works!! For example, in the instructions to download the rapid downloader it says not to save it under program files because this might affect other plug ins or updates… so…could I save it to desktop? Would that be “safe”?

I assume you are on Windows. Depending on your version / config the “Program Files” folder(s) can be “write protected”, so updates COULD have problems. The solution is simple, install it somewhere else, e.g. “C:\Programs”.

See, I haven’t even got to downloading a film and I’m stuck! I told you I was IT useless!

You remind me on my dead mother. “I don’t know how it works and I don’t want to learn it” 😃

But, ni, pittrek, I don’t “need” the discs…I would be quite happy watching them via a USB (I have a portable 1TB HDD actually with some avchd files on it from my camera which I can plug into my blu ray player or tv via a usb port).

Again, I suspect I could just download the avchd versions of despecialized (?) as I have read on here on the forums they are smaller files but little loss in quality?

Sure, if AVCHD is good enough for you, you can download these versions, they’re smaller. I never downloaded them since I have no equipment for playing the format, so I can’t comment on the quality.

Any help would be fab!