OK, the party never stops. So I got the photos from the tower to the external to the new hard drive. But when I sync them to my iPhone, I find something peculiar: the ones I actually took are all sorted under the appropriate folders, but the ones saved onto the phone from various websites are no longer sorted under the proper dates. Is this a new thing with iOS 8, or is it just another side effect of moving everything? I don't suppose I can get it back to the old way?
Oh, and more fun: I picked up an Ethernet cable. Much to my surprise, my DVR has an Ethernet port, and when I connect that to the Blu-ray player, it does in fact get me online! However, I naively assumed that his would be faster than the WiFi, but I'm still having trouble getting it above 720p. The thought of AT&T throttling me has certainly crossed my mind, why doesn't it come at full bore through the Ethernet as opposed to the WiFi? How will they handle charging me for data consumption? I assume it doesn't count under WiFi?
On a tangential note as regards the music itself, is there any way to preserve the playlists? I can recreate them in the new iTunes account, but the Sherlock Holmes audiobook series I have has all of the stories out of order, so putting them back in order would be a gigantic pain in the neck. And while this probably wouldn't matter to a normal, well-adjusted person who gets laid once in a while ;), can you manually set the number of plays on a song? It's a small thing, but it sub-grouped some stuff that way in the old iTunes account, so I was wondering if I could tell the new computer what said numbers were? I could check them and set songs on repeat, but that'd not only be a pain in the neck, but the final definitive proof that I have too much free time :D.
PS The phone keeps disconnecting and reconnecting when syncing. A bad cable, I assume? And by the by, what is "other?"