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Sd Card, Memory Stick or External Harddrive? My Macbook air only has 128GB memory so I'm looking for an external solution to my lack of space. Before anyone goes off about Macs, this computer had the same, if not better, specs as a PC with solid state memory at the time for the same amount of memory. And I already have a desktop PC for gaming so I thought I'd mix it up. Now that I have my bases covered, here's the deal. I'd like to spend less than $80 for either 64GB solid state or a 500GB HD. The perks of each being: SD Card - Can pop it into my computer and just leave it in there. Memory Stick - Faster than the SD card (USB 3.0) but I'd have to remove it to travel. HD - Tons of space. I'm mostly looking to back up my files from previous c

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Opening a txt file in XCode for a Cpp project I'm trying to open a .txt file called "earth.txt" and I cannot get it to work. Normally you can just drag and drop your file into the SDK and it becomes a resource automatically, but that didn't work. I even tried deleting that file, creating a new file with the same name, then pasting the information inside of that new .txt, but that didn't work either. Here's a tidbit of my code: ifstream inputfile; inputfile.open ("earth.txt" ); if (!inputfile) { cout << "Cannot open earth.txt" << endl; exit (1) } And yes, I have the proper sharp include. I always get my error message and it closes. I've never had an issue with this on Microsoft's SDK. I even showed i