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I assume that after fidsift has been run the first time, it takes much less time for subsequent runs because it is just updating or adding to the initially creaded subdirectory structure?


Just doing a (very quick) update. And it is even faster the second time, well, because the files have already been fidsifted, speeding things up.
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Since fidsift.sh is installed in the /empeg/bin directory, it is redundant to do the "put" and "chmod" steps. Is there any great benefit to leaving them in .. ?



Leave them in -- that way it will still work automatically after the next time you reinstall player software on that machine.

Cheers