There are times when I realize that I'm a complete freakin' idiot. Today is one of them.
I spent last night making sure that my iTunes library was hooked up on the Mac and then I couldn't move any music from the iTunes store to the portable hard drive. The phrase that comes to mind is WTF?!? I can hook up the hard drive, OS X recognizes all of the files and and I can open them, but I cannot write to the volume.
GRRRRRRRRR
Turns out that OS X and Windows Vista don't play nicely together. The best plan is to erase the hard drive, reformat it under Mac's OS X and use a third party utility to access it under Windows.
THAT means I transfer all of my music and all of my photos that are stored on the darn portable and that takes a million years - reformat the thing and THEN? MOVE EM BACK.
I'm a complete freakin' idiot.